If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.

The mindset of a Christian should be based on his faith that God can change the circumstances in His life

I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one's spirit is synchronized with the holy knowledge of God, the more he comprehends how and why sin is destructive to himself and others in each and every circumstance. The dwindling desire for sin is a premature gift of Heaven - where there will be no sin, where all will, too, possess that full and complete wisdom; all will have perfect reasons not to sin. In this way, free will might still exist, but the shared wisdom of God will simply outwit all desires, impulses, and needs to sin.

The term —musalman— refers to someone with —musallam iman", that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian.

Christians are the hope of any country

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

A sparrow fluttering about the church is an antagonist which the most profound theologian in Europe is wholly unable to overcome.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

If Christ were here today, there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

The Pope one day told his cardinals that he had good news and bad news. The good news: 'I've just received a phone call from Jesus, who has returned to earth.' The bad news: 'He was calling from Salt Lake City.'

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer ... its anti-intellectualism ... its puerile hymns ... and its faith-healing ... are made to order for King Kid America.

Catholic: confession on Saturday, absolution on Sunday. At it again on Monday.

The Christian religion is based on the economic policy that dead people don't ask for refunds.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.