A lot of people who knew them (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Madison) would have considered them devout. They were deist Christians. A deist thought the test of true religion was morality.
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Originally, my brother prayed about who to take with him. He really felt strongly he should take William, even though he wasn't a Christian. People said, No, no, no, no, that's not good.
Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.
I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
I am a Christian.
Really, everybody sometimes will think about Christmas, Christmases past, like it was a Currier Ives print, you know, the candle in the window, the snow on the sill, and isn't this wonderful But the truth was Uncle Harry got drunk, the kids were fighting over the toys, there wasn't enough money, you overate.
If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.
I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
Typically, the morning of Christmas Eve is busy and it will taper off by around three in the afternoon, that's with the exception of Santa who has long lines all day. By that time people are going home to finish last minute wrapping. The day after Christmas is very, very busy.
I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
We are living 'between the times' - the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a 'down-payment', on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.
To me, the outsider is God, ... If you take extreme fundamentalist Muslims, who believe it's sent down from Allah that destroying the infidel is their duty, and then if you take the extreme fundamentalists on the Christian right, God got disenfranchised somewhere in that deal a long, long time ago. The minute you start saying 'I'm the only one that's right,' you have lost it, as far as I'm concerned.
This is just part of our calling of being Christians. It is a way to love your neighbor in a concrete way.
To be a mainstream American is to live as an oxymoron. You are a good Christian, but you strain to remain dynamically competitive.
I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
It would be great to get the Christmas number one. I suppose we could even write something special for Christmas. I think Santa Loves Franz Ferdinand sounds pretty good.
He was a foe without hate a friend without treachery a soldier without cruelty a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices a private citizen without wrong a neighbor without reproach a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition Frederick, without his tyranny Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.
We should see a ridge of high pressure building on Wednesday, and by Friday it should be well-established. Weather over the Christmas weekend should be mild.
So recently I went back and walked it, and it was only 24 blocks. Walking up Wayside Drive from Avenue P up to past NavigationYou know it's still a Pentecostal church, only it's a Spanish one now.
He had just served as the best man in a recent wedding. He was an adult volunteer who helped out at youth activities, which is a common practice in every church. Like many other people in our church, I was completely caught off guard and shocked by this. It seemed completely out of character for him.
One year, President Nazarbayev was at the Christmas party, and in his toast, he talked about Nazarbayev as a forward-looking leader, as someone who's going to bring democracy to Kazakhstan. And there were tears in his eyes. He's a true believer.
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas
This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.
If this is confirmed, it will reinforce our suspicion that the December performance was inflated by many consumers opening their wallets to treat their families and themselves at Christmas having held back their spending over much of 2005.
It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need.
The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'
The first part was to demonstrate to the American public that the shrill fundamentalist voices that were demanding that people had to choose between religion and science were simply wrong. The second part was to demonstrate that those fundamentalist leaders that keep standing up and shouting that you can't accept modern science were not speaking for the majority of Christian leaders in this country.
A lot of the red-state, blue-state clichs are stupid and misleading. A lot of people were stunned at how well 'The Passion of the Christ' did in San Francisco, in Madison, Wis., in Philadelphia and New York.
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
(Chaplains will) hold Bible studies and worship services (if they are a Christian chaplains). They have a responsibility of making sure every person has an opportunity to exercise their faith.
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.
It is not enough to behave reverently we must feel in our hearts reverence for our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ. Reverence flows from our admiration and respect for Deity. It is something we feel inside our hearts no matter what is going on around us. It is also a personal responsibility. We cannot blame others for disturbing our reverent attitudes.
We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational and unscriptural doctrine of the Trinity. To us, as to the Apostle and the primitive Christians, there is one God, even the Father. With Jesus, we worship the Father, as the only living and true God. We are astonished, that any man can read the New Testament, and avoid the conviction, that the Father alone is God.
I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.
When I look down at my shoes, it really gives me motivation, ... I write certain things that can motivate me. Here's my favorite one, Philippians 413 - 'I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.' That's the kind of verses I write on there that really give me motivation.
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
A Christian is like a tea bag -- he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water.
He never hold arms at all. We grew up in a Christian home. We don't believe in violence. We don't believe in fighting.
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
We didn't play very well at the Christmas tournament. And we had to make some changes at half because we were down 15. To come back from that far down at Kelly says a lot about our character.
If somebody can do this to a church, then God help them.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.