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“Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.”

“If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.”

Ifs Men Way Heart Christian Sound Practice Progress Heard Expression Messages Demon Temples Orthodox Righteousness Word Of God Rooted Virtuous Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.”

“To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.”

“But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.”

Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill

“Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Thus Tertullian observes, that the expression is unum , one thing, not one person; and he explains it to mean unity, likeness, conjunction, and of the love that the Father bore to the Son. Origen says, "let him consider that text, 'all that believed were of one heart and of one soul,' and then he will understand this, 'I and my Father are one".”

Heart Mean Persons Soul Christian Father One Thing Son Expression Understood Harmony Unity Bores Disposition Conjunctions

Author:Joseph Priestley

“"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”

Wisdom Christian Politics Term Religious Economy Expression Socialism Liberalism Contradiction Implying

Book:Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

Source: Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

“If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.”

Ifs Christian Expression And Love Neighbor Evangelism Expressions Of Love

Author:Miroslav Volf

“In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.”

Self Age Christian Expression Patient Abstract Self Expression Euphoria Delinquents

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.”

Christian Religious Expression Establishment Founders Denominations

Book:Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

Source: Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

“It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.”

Firsts School Christian Parent Religious Teacher Expression Type Officials Zone Amendments Forbidden Public School First Amendment Inappropriate

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.”

Has Beens Able Christian Religious Existence Expression

Author:Russell Kirk

“Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.”

Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God

“Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.”

Christian Culture Religious Expression Western Phrases Hostility Disbelief Carter Prevailing Western Culture

Author:Josh McDowell

“With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.”

People Years Believe Christian Individual Grows Community Religious Practice Rights Expression Institutions Passing Passings Squares Steady Honored Hostility Erosion

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion... these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America's new anti-faith bigots.”

Way Mean Use Christian America Political Term Religious Expression Currents Bigotry Accurate Hostility Civics Cleansing Bigots Containment

Author:Jay Sekulow

“If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.”

Ifs Christian Form Hate Religious Expression Censorship

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices are treated as second class forms of speech and singled out for discrimination.”

Christian Form Religious Levels Class Practice Fields Expression Equal Speech Discrimination Treated Playing Fields

Author:Mathew Staver

“Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.”

World Wells Ideas Helping Christian Form This World Expression Morality Stress Lays Inward Christian Freedom

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”

Ifs Facts Christian Term Church Religious Expression Harmony Catholic Remains Historical Socialism Doctrine Contradiction Dogma Catholic Church Implying Historical Facts

Author:Pope Pius XI

“[There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.”

Years Christian Religion Found Women Religious Divine Expression Criticism Connections Depth Feminist Urgency Christian Women

Book:The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

Source: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

“On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.”

Love Sometimes Facts Christian Expression Concerned Easter

Author:Barack Obama

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