“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.” UsedArtistCultureCoursesLanguageInterestChristianityAudienceMaterialsGeniusTasteCapacityAccountsPaintIndifferenceLazinessIgnoredStrictMarbleIncompetenceTamedHaughty Author:C. S. Lewis
“The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.” MindShowsLanguageRaceChristianityStudyElementsUniversalClimateTheologyTraditionalLimitationZoneSignificanceBrotherhoodGlobesLiberatingTranscendentLatitudeLatitude And Longitude Author:Amos Bronson Alcott
“If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsLongSometimesChristianPastUsedSpeakLanguageRealizingChristianityOpinionTakenLong TimeUselessConventional Author:Wendell Berry
“Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.” YearsLastsLanguageChristianityHundredIndiaBritishFiftyEnglish LanguageEnglishmenBritish Rule Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."” KnowsMenMightFallLanguageCommonChristianityPathStandardsRisingWhalesManlyCommon Language Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.” PeopleThinkingStillsI CanLostLeftLanguageChurchChristianityRolesCenturyParticularLosingEnglandEmpiresColonialism20th Century19th CenturyVictorianChurch Of EnglandVictorian Times Author:Alan Green
“Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us use has contributed to the crisis in Christianity in North America. Traditional Christian language is becoming less familiar to millions of people. The language is frequently misunderstood by people.” PeopleMeanChristianLanguageChristianityCrisisFamiliarMisunderstood Author:Marcus Borg
“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.” IfsMenBelieveI CanShowsSeemsReligionFatherLanguageWishFamilyChristianityAtheismBrotherOughtMy FriendsAtheistDoctrineBeing TrueNatural SelectionTheismTheistReligious PhilosophyChristian AtheistChristian DoctrinePlain Language Book:Autobiographies Source: Autobiographies
“If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.” PeopleIfsHardLanguagePrayerChristianityPrayingSickMissionsMissionaryAnswers To PrayerChristian PrayerGreat MissionaryPrayers Not Being AnsweredChristian MissionaryInspirational MissionaryMissionary Life Author:Fredrik Franson