Quotes of: Christian-nation Keyword

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

Arthur Henderson

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Jerry Falwell

These stupid biases and discrimination are the reason our country is so screwed up. It's Tamil first, Indian later. Punjabi first, Indian later. It has to end. National anthem, national currency, national teams - still, we won't marry our children ou...

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk trad...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce—laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the churches,...

Nationalism

Fleecing the Third World has been a reality for decades if not centuries. Mineral-abundant Third World nations, which should be some of the richest on Earth, are all too often among the poorest. Many argue that the poverty of these nations can usuall...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national m...

Absurdistan

I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he not grieved by our arrogant accumulation, while Christian brothers and sisters...

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

To say that science is the measure of all true knowledge is not a scientific truth but a philosophic claim about science. It's scientism posing as science.

The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

Christianizing the Roman Empire:

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever

Power is Power," Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.

Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

Money almost always ends up disappointing. Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.

On Christian Hot Topics

•Don't do yoga to get peace. It is possibly occultic. It seems innocent, but it can open a door to Satan in your life. I know this from personal experience. Seek God for peace, not things of this world.

On Christian Hot Topics

Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q.

Five Times More Jesus: Why Christians Should Decanonize the Old Testament

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.

Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy.

God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships