“For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.” PeopleImportantShowsBigsChristianWalksChristianityWho I AmCommandWho We AreAshamed Author:Ashley Young
“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.” YearsHumansLongHas BeensTwoSelfStatesBigsPastAsksIndividualGoalInterestConsciousnessChristianitySacrificeCenturyHigherThousandConflictEnlightenmentDirectOkayOrganizationAskingCommunismCooperationThousand YearsSelf InterestOffspringHuman ConsciousnessHigher Goals Author:David Gerrold
“Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.” BigsFormOrderDiesBeliefHeavenDealsChristianityHellBuddhismIslamMeaninglessJudaismBig DealHeaven And HellChristianity And Islam Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.” GivingEnoughBigsHateChristianityI HateIntimateGloriousRelationship With GodChristendomIntimate RelationshipsIntimate Relationship With God Author:Paul Washer
“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.” WorldFirstsChildrenLittlesEndsBigsSpiritTurnsPoorChristianityBandShotsImportanceBlindShirtsTailsWearyArrangementsHaltParadesLameChristmas SpiritProcessionBig Shots Author:Bill Vaughan
“Christianity nowadays is like a big household where many cousins live under the same roof. They all belong to the same clan, but at times they have very different ideas about how to run their family affairs.” IdeasDifferentBigsRunningChristianityAffairHouseholdRoofCousinClansDifferent Ideas Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp
“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.” MindIdeasWholeUseBigsOrderReadingHouseGivenDifficultImaginationPrayerRoomsChristianityPracticeMeditationConceptsIntellectScriptureContemplationCatholicismMysticalStrainPrayerfulBig Houses Author:Kevin Hart
“I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.” I CanBigsStuffChristianityTeachingCatholicJesuit Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“I'm a fan of Bill Hicks. He did things that no other stand up did at the time. He was making fun of religion, at that time it was a lot harder to say those things in the States than it was here. To slag off Christianity and fundamentalist Christians, and to be pro drugs and anti gun in the deep south, that's a big ask. And he did that and made it funny. Bill Hicks was able to say things that he really thought, and he managed to make those thoughts funny without a care if it antagonised people.” PeopleIfsMadeStatesBigsCareAbleChristianAsksFunChristianityFansDrugGunHarderBillsSouthMade ItFundamentalistAnti GunHicksSlag Author:Ed Byrne
“I know people who support Hamas but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... They follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealProblemBigsChristianitySupportExampleInvolvedIslamTerroristGod LoveRepresentativesBig ProblemsTerrorist AttacksHamas Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God wants you to have this big house and so on, the nature of American religion right now, the fact that it is so non-denominational and post-denominational, the most successful churches have to be run more like businesses than ever before. I think that just exposes Christians to a constant temptation to think about the ministry more as a business than they sometimes should.” ThinkingWayWantShouldIdeasSometimesFactsBigsRunningChristianHouseChurchChristianitySuccessfulRight NowAreasConstantTemptationPostsMinistryBig Houses Author:Ross Douthat
“That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.” DoneBigsDifferencesChristianityGrace Author:Rick Warren