“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).” IfsMenLongEndsAbleChristianAsksPrayerSinPleasureGriefVirtueSeeingBenefitsMercyIsraelServantLife ChangingSinnerOrthodoxRejectedMournPointlessNecessary Change Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."” ChristianMistakeBloodHolyApproachLaysSinnerRejectedCainHoly GodFatal Mistakes Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh
“I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.” YearsChristianCultureJesusChristianityYears AgoLuckIsraelGreekRejectedSiteGood LuckGreek Culture Author:Freeman Dyson
“It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.” KnowsMenHas BeensFactsChristianCan DoKnownMoralAtheismTeachingOrdinaryBlindValuablePositive AtheismPortionsRejectedAcquaintanceChristian Faith Author:John Stuart Mill
“Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.” PeopleHandsChristianPoliticalCommunityReligiousRolesPressesCrucialRejected Author:Fred Barnes
“The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.” IdeasEarthChristianUniverseHeavenPerfectDivinePlanetsCitizensFundamentalsNotionForgottenPeculiarRejectedNastySuccessorsTainted Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos