"Mr. Hayes was a churchgoer (indeed, a deacon), but he considered his religion a civic duty, a moral discipline, a social obligation, and (he was honest) a business asset. . . . Hayes was a Christian, but if the truth be known, Christ irritated him to death. With the army in Freiburg, Germany, in 1959, he'd read the Gospels while cooped up in the infirmary, and he'd argued by pencil in the margins against the Savior. In his personal opinion, Christ's advice sounded like civic sabotage, moral lunacy, social anarchy, and business disaster."
Michael Malone, Handling Sin, as quoted in Frank G. Honeycutt's, Preaching for Adult Conversion
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Monday, May 16, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Illustration-a-day: Chesterton
Some great one liners from one of my favorite authors, G. K. Chesterton.
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank."
"Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian."
“Jesus tells us to love our neighbors and to love our enemies, because often they are the same people.”
"The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild."
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank."
"Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian."
“Jesus tells us to love our neighbors and to love our enemies, because often they are the same people.”
"The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild."
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