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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Costly Grace”, p. 45
- Christianity
Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 142
- Christianity
- Good & Evil
I’m wary of faith outside of actions. I’m wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world.
Bonoborn 1960Rolling Stone interview (2005)
- Faith
One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.
Bonoborn 1960National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
- God
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Library of Babel” (1941)
- Hope
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre, preface to the 2nd edition (21 December 1847)In context
- Morality
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), PrefaceIn context
- Morality
He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter VIn context
- Clever Jabs
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Goncourt brothersJanuary 24, 1868; translation from Robert Baldick (ed. and trans.) Pages from the Goncourt Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 135.
- Atheism
When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown1933–2006Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York.
- Happiness
The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
- Christianity
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to William Smith, Member of the Irish Parliament (29 January 1795), quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VIII: September 1794–April 1796 (1969), p. 128
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Charity
- Christianity
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)