“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” MenGodChristianIndividualHeavenSocialChristianityRightsDutyOughtTyrannyResistanceDependenceResistingOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianSteadfastUs Founding FathersChristianity From Founding FathersChristian PatrioticDependence On God Author:John Hancock
“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.” MenImportantSoulHeavenSocialNaturalAnswersInterestingViewsPowerfulInfluenceDesignObjectsCuriosityAffectionExcitedSelfishMysteriousMotiveProvidencePermission Author:Daniel Boone
“Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.” RealHeavenSocialMoralAtheismMoralityBasesObligationFaith In GodTangibleSanctionsPassports Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.” IfsHumansChildrenDoeSoulEarthLife IsPurposeForceHeavenSocialNumbersEffortRaceOur LivesSkyAtheismAchievementPositive AtheismImprovementHuman RaceAccomplishedElsewhereBest EffortSocial Service Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.” IfsMenWellsLooksEyeLawPassionHeavenSocialLibertyChristianityKindnessHonestyIndustryProudEssentialsBreathsDepthAffectionSpreadIntellectFavorsWell BeingSelfishnessPurityAppetiteBrotherhoodSubordinatesTruth HonestyAzureFaith In Love Author:Mark Hopkins
“So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence” WorldShouldMeanDoeRealEarthPoliticalOrderJesusHeavenSocialPrayerActingExistencePrayingKingdomsReal WorldExcludedKingdom Come Author:Dallas Willard
“In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us that we cannot identify who “has it”, who is “in” with God, who is “blessed”, by looking at exteriors of any sort. That is a matter of the heart. There alone the kingdom of the heavens and human kingdoms great and small are knit together. Draw any cultural or social line you wish, and God will find his way beyond it.” PeopleWayNeedsHumansHeartMatterHelpingStoriesTogetherJesusHeavenWishSocialLinesTeachDrawsBlessedGods WillKingdomsExteriorMatters Of The HeartSamaritans Author:Dallas Willard
“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.” AgeEarthIndividualHeavenSocialCausesChristChurchPoorPrinciplesRolesVictoryConcernCrossesWeakSalvationInspiredInjusticeMissionsCrueltyFallenDimensionsManifestCosmicApathyDefeatedOppressedNeedy Book:God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict Source: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict