“Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.” FirstsMayHas BeensSoulShowsBodyChristianTaughtPrayingEatingSakeProofAbsenceSatisfiedGuiltyVisibleOrthodoxDominationPraying To GodPresent Life Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.” ChildrenChristianMotherAtheismThousandEatingConsequenceDiedTwentiesKillingHungerPositive AtheismLocalsThirtyNicaraguaMaize Author:Bartolome de las Casas
“Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.” ChristianUniverseNationsEatingTreatsAbsurdityAntiquity Author:Frederick The Great
“All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.” DoeDoneChristianOrderChoicesPrayerSleepEatingSimplicity Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M. Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.” EarthChristianAirBloodSeaTasteEatingSkinsBillsBritishLuxuryFranceMarshes Author:John Gay
“Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.” GovernmentCareChristianEnergyEatingConcernedIndependenceEnergy Independence Author:Mike Huckabee
“You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.” ChristianNationsEatingHighestMadnessInsanityInsultGrantsDisgustingDogmaAbsurdityAntiquityClimaxMadness And Insanity Author:Frederick The Great
“No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were worshiping trees and eating each other, so when they talk, I listen.” ChristianTreeCenturyEatingAssumingJewAncestor Author:Stephen Graham
“We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.” HeartHas BeensSometimesChristianInterestSituationEnemyClearCuttingEatingIsraelIslamicPriestsVillageRebelStableOrgansSyriaAssad Author:Rand Paul
“There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.” IfsMadeEndsHomeChristianDifferencesRoomsEatingStrangerDinnerFeedingHomelessnessEating Dinner Author:Shane Claiborne
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.” MenStatesChristianLyingReadingSleepWifeHumilityPrideListeningHigherEatingStandardsPreparingPlatoThankfulnessGoing To SleepTemperancePride And Humility Author:C. S. Lewis