“Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.” MenHumansKindMayPersonsFormSpiritPassionNationsPleasurePayAttentionSacrificeColorHolyDegreesEssencePraiseAngryRefuseAll TimeSuperstitionsHostileUnkind Book:The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study
“Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!” BookHolyFishesRefusePriestsFishermanIrrationalityHoly BooksFryingFrying Pans Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.” MenWantExistenceMoralHolyMen And WomenClaimsFinalsRefuseContraryAcknowledgeAnalysisBowsHoly God Author:R. C. Sproul
“We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.” IfsWorldWantNeedsStillsBodyTodaySpiritSufferingFatherKnownBloodSonTomorrowDrinkHolyWorshipGloryPassionateRefuseCommitHoly SpiritCompassionateHis LoveLive Passionately Author:N. T. Wright
“To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.” IfsHeartSpiritSilenceHolyRefuseImpulseGrievingHoly SpiritNeglectConsistently Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer