“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.” IfsThinkingWritingLooksDoeEndsWholeLife IsVoiceChristianityOur LivesPlansMissingDesignBrokenMusic IsBeatsEarsSilentCreatorWhole LifeGods WillLook UpSicknessMelodyDisappointedLeisurePausesEnd TimesHere And ThereHymnsLamentDismayed Author:John Ruskin
“Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.” WritingLawLostChristianityEssentialsUnitySpiteDivisionRecognizingAroma Author:C. S. Lewis
“I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But to speak of the craft itself, I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer. Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.” IfsKnowsMenWritingBelieveDoeMatterSpeakStrongI BelieveInterestResultsChristianityKnow HowTalentMovedLustCraftsImpulseChemistryVery StrongAdvise Author:C. S. Lewis
“What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.” MenWritingPersonsHas BeensBookCharacterChristianSpeakNationsPoorCommonKnownLibertyChristianityWeakCastsObligedReproachPuritan Author:Cotton Mather
“The Court explained the problem with his writings (People v. Ruggles. 1811.): an attack on Jesus Christ was an attack on Christianity; and an attack on Christianity was an attack on the foundation of the country; therefore, an attack on Jesus Christ was equivalent to an attack on the country!” PeopleWritingCountryProblemChristianJesusChristReligiousChristianityJesus ChristFoundationCourt Author:David Barton
“The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.” FeelsWritingTryingMeanImportantHappensCarePoliticalFeltViewsChristianityComedyTroubleDivineCaringPoint Of ViewThings HappenShouldersEngagedPoetry IsOrthodoxSectionsMedievalOf ContextDivine Comedy Author:W. S. Merwin
“In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.” KnowsWritingYearsChristianLastsReadingFatherStrongSocialPrayerChristianityRichConscienceWesternTraditionalLast YearMysticalEastern Author:Richard Rohr
“The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from that time until the last part of the twentieth century, the only people reading the gospels and interpreting the gospels and writing commentaries on the gospels were gentiles who were simply ignorant of the Jewish background, and I just thought they were prejudiced.” PeopleWritingChristianLastsReadingLeftChurchChristianityTroubleCenturyJewBackgroundsIgnorantTwentieth CenturyCommentaryInterpretingChristian ChurchGentiles Author:John Shelby Spong
“If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.” IfsMenWritingChristianityChemistry Author:C. S. Lewis
“There are people who assume that Christianity is about the afterlife and that our chief problem in this life is that we are sinners who need to be punished and the point of Jesus life is that he took our punishment so we can go to heaven. I write about the problems we get ourselves into by misunderstanding and limiting the way we think about our faith.” PeopleThinkingWritingProblemJesusHeavenChristianityAssumingSinnerMisunderstanding Author:Marcus Borg
“I write for people who aren't Christians. I write for non, new, and nominal Christians who are curious about the Bible and Christianity. They're like New York City. If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere. If I can write a book about the Bible that's engaging enough to attract people who aren't even Christians, I'm betting Christians will want to read it, too.” PeopleWritingBookEnoughChristianChristianityCuriousBetting Author:Stephen M. Miller
“I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.” PeopleWritingTryingChristianityLordShareFundamentalsDearScaredAcceptedNeuroticMessed UpQuestions AskedDear LordStrength And Hope Author:Anne Lamott
“I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.” WritingTryingLooksDoeFacesChristianityImagineIslamMore TimeJudaismHijabNiqab Author:Will Self
“During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.” WritingFirstsStatesGovernmentMemoriesExistenceChristianityCenturyAwarenessIdentityInvolvedSacredLifetimeIslamFaithfulFoundersReligion And GovernmentWriting History Author:Bernard Lewis