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The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.
LLLynn Lavner
They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he’s coming back to save us. But they don’t understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (16 July 1910)
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‘opiate of the people’ have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 5, “The Practical Conclusion”
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain1835–1910
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
This is a Christian nation.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972“Exchange of Messages With Pope Pius XII,” American Presidency Project (August 28, 1947)
- America
At least five times…with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Everlasting Man
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990