Twitter is the Devil's playground.
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government. That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream.
In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.
For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.
I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.
Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.