"Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike."

-- Ramsay MacMullen

#Christian Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Devil Quotes

“No amount of energy will take the place of thought.”
“Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.”
“Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.”
“It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.”
“A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty - a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.”

Source : Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.
“To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.”
“Jeri Brown has it all - adventurous spirit, superb musicianship, and technique to spare.”
“If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.”

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