“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.” IfsChildrenHomeChristianWishTermChristianityTroubleMiracleOur ChildrenYour ChildrenGracious Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.” IfsLooksTwoRealHomeChristianityLordFitTestsTablesCoffeeCupsSundayBreakfastHypocriteBenchesPiousCoffee Cup Author:Vance Havner
“Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.” MenMayHomeCultureLiteratureGivenHalfChristianityTakenOur LivesAtheismFinalsPositive AtheismSexualityNakedGrantedNecksDead ManFinal Words Author:Marilyn Manson
“Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.” IfsNeedsLooksLittlesDoeHomeSpiritualityChristImaginationAnswersChristianityMysteryMaterialsDemandWorshipDistanceAddNotesPassingPassingsLook UpProtestVeilsAscensionUniversalityOutreachFar Distance Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.” HomeJoyChristianityFindingsForgiven Author:Bear Grylls