“What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you.” IfsHeartKindChristianJobsNightLosesSleepChristianityLordTearsBrokenCostDollarsGood Christian Author:John R. Rice
“Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.” WorldMadeUseChristianJobsOrderCenturyHavensPhrasesGood JobHeartbreakingSave The World Author:Richard Rohr
“Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.” KindLongStillsDoneChristianJobsFightingNextSleepLevelsMorningStruggleAchievePoetWake UpJewBuddhistGoing To SleepBeing FreeGood ChristianNightfallZen Buddhist Author:Maya Angelou
“(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.” PeopleFeelsHomeEarthChristianTogetherJobsThreeHeavenFreedomRaceWonderfulMercyPrejudiceJewParadiseImmigrantsQuartersDescribingBrazilEnchantingCreoleSeventh HeavenMulattoes Author:Stefan Zweig