“Christians can have doubts and they can have questions and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.” WayChristianGrowsDealsDoubtHonestHealthyBeing HonestUnhealthy Author:Lee Strobel
“I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.” ThinkingChristianLife IsReligiousHonestLiving My LifeI Live My LifeDescribe Myself Author:Iris DeMent
“If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.” IfsWantFeelsSometimesFeelingsChristianAmericaLife IsSongChristBornNumbersHonestStrangeBeatsIncreaseBeing HonestDecreaseUnfaithfulHobos Author:Criss Jami
“Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.” KnowsMenWayLooksMayDifferentMatterMightChristianCertainSidesChristStreetsHonestHavensStrangeSonOughtLettersRejectionSandHidingMistakenForgivenTelephonesBe A ManHealedReceiverHandwritingOstriches Author:C. S. Lewis
“Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.” MenStillsCharacterHandsChristianFacesChurchGracePlansHonestBraveCheerfulCantTrumpetsHonest ManLoathingPretenceGrace Christian Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddyit's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksLittlesLongDoneChristianMotherChristianityHonestSeriousLoversTruth IsSixJewBuddhistEveningGood FriendEightyBuddyLook At YourselfGood MotherHmmGood LoveSerious BusinessGood LoversGood Buddhist Author:Maya Angelou
“We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.” Would BeChristianWishAtheismHonestBrotherHeroDenyPositive AtheismBeing HonestPermitChristian Brothers Book:What on Earth Is an Atheist! Source: What on Earth Is an Atheist!
“To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.” ChristianBeliefViewsTakenModernHonestScaryTraditionalBeing HonestModern Society Author:Antonin Scalia
“Christians can not truly evangelize unless they are prepared to be evangelized in the process. In sharing the good news, people are enriched by the spiritual insights, honest questions and depth of devotion demonstrated by those of other faiths. Including others involves listening to them, learning from them. Much of what exists in other faiths may not necessarily be hostile to the kingdom. Christians can learn a lot from other walks of life.” PeopleMayChristianSpiritualProcessWalksHonestListeningNewsPreparedDepthIncludingInsightDevotionKingdomsCan NotGood NewsHostileWalks Of LifeSpiritual InsightIncluding Others Author:Eddie Gibbs
“When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.” ChristianUsedJesusChristLeadershipChurchSinHonestJesus ChristOver YouRighteousnessFigs Author:Johnny Hunt
“Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?” MenChristianAsksAnimalChristianityBloodHonestHorrorAsk MeBeastSubstitutesSensibleHonest ManSects Author:Voltaire
“It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!” HeartMatterChristianHonestFairsBe GoodBeing Honest Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.” MenHeartKindDoeEnoughChristianSpiritSpiritualityCoursesAnswersCuttingHonestHolyMessagesIntellectualHonestlyAriseHoly SpiritComprehensionIntellectualismDichotomy Author:Francis Schaeffer
“The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy.” WorldChristianPerfectHonestWillingBeing HonestHypocrisyContradiction Author:Shane Claiborne