“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.” WayChristianUniverseDifferencesAcceptingEmotionalSaintPassionatePracticalsResignationStoicReligious Experience Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.” PeopleKnowsChristianTogetherSpiritualChristianityEmotionalPrayingMarriedIntimacyBudgetsSchedulesDivorcedUncommonGood ChristianLife TogetherPaperwork Author:Mark Driscoll
“As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.” MindChristianLosesReligiousWonderEmotionalTreatsSightCourtPressesPushingAffliction Author:Robert Bork