“One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.” WantChristianAwfulAppearingBiggest FearChristian God Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.” FeelingsEarthChristianGuiltyMaximumAdventGenealogyChristian GodIndebtedness Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.” WellsIdeasEnoughChristianSpiritCertainLove IsMoralPrinciplesMoralityHighestConceptsEssenceAssumingSupremeInstanceCharacteristicsAssumptionGod Is LoveMoral PrinciplesGuiding PrinciplesChristian God Author:Carl Jung
“I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me - I actually took my teachers seriously!” BelieveWholeChristianTeacherTrainingScaredCreatorCompromiseServantSpoiledPublic ServantsChristian God Author:Sinclair Lewis
“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” LifeMomentsGodHelpingEyeChristianSpiritualLife IsFaithChallengesReligiousPrayerPowerfulLordTearsForgivenessForgivingConstantChristian InspirationalChristian LifeHelp MeTrust In GodGodlyCommitment To GodConfidence In GodDiscouragementIntimacy With GodForgive MeGod HelpGod LifeConnecting With GodConversations With GodGod Help MeTalking To GodGod ForgivesAsking For HelpChristian GodLord Forgive MeGod Forgive MeTears In My EyesGod And Life Author:Billy Graham
“Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.” BelieveGodUseChristianFatherI BelieveTermDifficultyDefinitionsSymbolsHonoredChristian God Author:Georgia Harkness
“Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.” MenChristianAnimalFailingWorshipSaintFearfulHerdsSuperstitiousChristian God Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.” IfsSeemsSchoolChristianAtheismWorshipDeserveConvictionPositive AtheismFirmSundayAbsurdityChristian FaithSunday SchoolChristian GodGroveling Author:H. L. Mencken