Shadia Drury famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.
-- Shadia Drury

#Jesus #Religion #Atheism
I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.
-- Shadia Drury

#Wise #Book #Being Real
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.
-- Shadia Drury

#Spiritual #Reality #Law

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
You donâ€™t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you donâ€™tï»¿ have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you donâ€™t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You donâ€™t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.
You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Shadia Drury famous quotes

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