I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
From beginning to end, our Christian lives— highs and lows, fasting and fornication— are a tapestry of grace. Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 31).
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.
I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.
The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is...Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work.
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive
I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.
The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?
