“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.” WayChristianUniverseDifferencesAcceptingEmotionalSaintPassionatePracticalsResignationStoicReligious Experience Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.” PeopleKnowsChristianTogetherSpiritualChristianityEmotionalPrayingMarriedIntimacyBudgetsSchedulesDivorcedUncommonGood ChristianLife TogetherPaperwork Author:Mark Driscoll
“As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.” MindChristianLosesReligiousWonderEmotionalTreatsSightCourtPressesPushingAffliction Author:Robert Bork
“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.” IfsInspirationalNeedsChildrenChristianUnderstandingCompassionChildhoodEmotionalEmpathyUnderstoodOur ChildrenLifetimeMy ChildrenSympathyRaising ChildrenParentalEmotional NeedsMakeovers Author:Florence Littauer
“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .” IfsWellsMeanHelpingChristianSufferingNaturalExistenceChristianityFailingEmotionalSeriousDemandOrdinaryCrossesShameEverydayForgottenTrialsUpliftingRejectionDiscipleshipCalamityTribulationTrials And Tribulations Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.” ChristianValuesLeftGivenReligiousEmotionalJewLeftistsEmotional Power Author:Dennis Prager
“In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.” IfsWellsMeanEndsFeelingsChristianJesusLove IsEmotionSacrificeProduceEmotionalWillingNeighborContraryWell BeingRespondingCozy Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC. Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.” ChristianHoursChurchPrayerStudyTakenAcceptanceEmotionalReadyCoupleGayConversationTurmoilGay CouplesEmotional Turmoil Author:Tony Campolo
“There's a very secret plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, 'Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A. because we want X, Y, and Z.' They'll never ever say that. But I'm kind of surprised they went after Christmas because it's such an emotional issue.” WantWellsKindPhilosophyChristianSecretIssuesPlansEmotionalDiminishChristian Philosophy Author:Bill O'Reilly