“The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner', and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.” HumansPersonsChristianValuesChristianityStageShameHistoricalErrorsStartingTheologySinnerStarting PointGlorificationChristian Theology Author:Robert H. Schuller
“If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?” IfsFeelsMindPersonsBodyShameAngryYour BodyAdvertisingDelivering Book:The Enchiridion Source: The Enchiridion
“Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.” IfsWritingBelievePersonsHardWould BeShameExtraordinaryDepthJournalistProfessorsHard To BelieveFlairExtraordinary Person Author:Alan Ryan
“It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.” YearsPersonsHas BeensChristianShameSalvation Author:Theodore Epp
“Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.” KnowsWayPersonsLongDonePastJoyLostHoursAcceptingAliveMinutesRegretThousandMiracleShameNineTricksUselessFiftyDreadHere And NowLive In The PresentWay To LiveOne MinuteWeakeningLiving In The PastReally Living Author:Storm Jameson
“Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long timeand it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.My point is that you do not need me or anyone elseThe only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness” IfsNeedsPersonsLongStillsWould BeMovingFightingOpportunityShameDown AndSettlingRealmsEach DayHorizonStubbornnessSettling DownNomadicNew Horizons Author:Jon Krakauer
“No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.” IfsPersonsFoundNamesDrinkHundredRegardShameBeerShockSaneVulgarScornShamefulRefinementHumiliatingSnobCiderClaret Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton