These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
The essential amorality of all atheist doctrines is often hidden from us by an irrelevant personal argument. We see that many articulate secularists are well-meaning and law-abiding men; we see them go into righteous indignation over injustice and often devote their lives to good works. So we conclude that "he can't be wrong whose life is in the right" -- that their philosophies are just as good guides to action as Christianity. What we don't see is that they are not acting on their philosophies. They are acting, out of habit or sentiment, on an inherited Christian ethic which they still take for granted though they have rejected the creed from which it sprang. Their children will inherit some what less of it.
id: 850 | source: Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain [1955] | tags: Apologetics, Atheism, Logic, Morality
use as: "be sure your sin will find you out" Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested Steven Smiley, 39, in March and charged him as thee one who, just acting on his "fascination with explosives" (as one deputy described it), released plastic trash bags filled with helium into the air, with burning flares and explosive powder attached, so that when the flare burned out, the bag would explode like a small bomb. Smiley apparently had no idea where the bags would land and, according to deputies, didn't seem to care. One, however, landed on the roof of a sheriff's substation three miles from Smiley's home and exploded, but no one was hurt. [Edmonton Journal-AP, 3-17-01]
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
To know and not to do is not to know. -- Saying on Wall Street
The trouble oftentimes with religious people is that they try to be more spiritual than God himself.
id: 2383 | source: Frederick Buechner | tags: Legalism, Religion, Spiritual Formation