"If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil."

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Source : "The Lost Message of Jesus". Book by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann, 2003.

Steve Chalke

#Jesus Quotes #Love You Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.”
“As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.”
“At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.”
“Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.”
“The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.”

Source : Richard Carlile, Olinthus Gregory (1821). “Observations on "Letters to a Friend on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Christian Religion by Olinthus Gregory" L.L.D. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich: In a Letter to the Rev. William Wait”, p.54
“One always wonders about roads not taken.”
“You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true.”

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