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religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature. Charles Caleb Colton
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! Charles Dickens
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
religious children civilization
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
religious college pigs
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?
religious hype world
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Charles Stanley
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.
heaven world difficulty
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
heaven links golden
Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.
heaven suits burden
Heaven suits the back to the burden.
heaven balance floating
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.
heaven joy sorrow
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.
heaven his-love earth
Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.
heaven trying paper
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
heaven wish ifs
If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.
heaven mind rags
The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.
church moments despise
The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.
church heirlooms persecution
Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.
church doctrine traps
The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
church would-be doing-good
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
church conviction repentance
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? Aiden Wilson Tozer
church attention pay
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
church done today
In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.
church locals local-church
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.
church watches praying
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.