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“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.”

“The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.”

Giving Wells Different Christian Joy Names Creation Shapes Findings Crosses Logic Longing Belonging Resurrection Christian Living Healed Different Directions

Author:N. T. Wright

“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.”

People Firsts Christian Used Social Religious Findings Amendments Participation First Amendment Herds Ghetto

Author:Pat Swindall

“I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.”

Believe Christian Findings Mistaken

Book:Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

“Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.”

Way Helping Christian Desire Findings Acknowledge Pilgrim

Author:Philip Yancey

“What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding faith involved betraying it with a kiss?”

Source: How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church

“Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.”

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Author:Dennis Quaid

“In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.”

World Trying Ends Home Christian Imagine This World Findings Green Iraq Zone Buried Coming Back Tombs Smack Stunned Green Zone

Author:Elliott Colla

“Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.”

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Author:Frederick Buechner

“There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.”

Whole Christian Culture Hours Church Findings Eternal Tradition Surface Miles Enterprise Rooted Timeless Diving Beneath The Surface Diving Deep

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.”

Christian Young Purpose Causes Christ Students College Findings Savior Young Women Emily Without Hope

Author:Christopher Benfey

“For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19”

“The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.”

Source: When God Whispers Your Name