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“By His sacrifice, Christ brought us out of the slavery of sin into a new freedom of righteousness. But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness (Rom 6:17-18).”
― The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity
― The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity
“Christianity has been a boon to mankind . . . (and) has had a beneficent effect upon the human race. . . . Most people today who live in an ostensibly Christian environment with Christian ethics do not realize how much we owe Jesus of Nazareth. . . . What goodness and mercy there is in this world has come in large measure from him. D. James Kennedy, Christian”
― The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
― The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
“suddenly. “Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?”
― The Terror
― The Terror
“I think that, to some degree, all of us are fractured souls. Cut in half. And we wander through life looking for the rest of ourselves. And sometimes we’re fortunate enough to meet someone who possesses, in themselves, the part of ourselves that we’ve been missing. We may not realize it on a conscious level, but definitely on a subconscious level. We see in someone else … something of ourselves.”
― Imzadi Forever
― Imzadi Forever
“God is the hub of the wheel of life. The closer we come to God the closer we come to each other. The basis of community is not primarily our ideas, feelings, and emotions about each other but our common search for God. When we keep our minds and hearts directed toward God, we will come more fully “together.”
― The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
― The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
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