802 – “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

–C S Lewis [See Link for Better Context]

666 – Upton Sinclair on Satan and the Christian Church

“[Satan] failed to get Jesus, but he came again, to get Jesus’ church. He came when, through the power of the new revolutionary idea, the Church had won a position of tremendous power in the decaying Roman Empire; and the subtle worm assumed the guise of no less a person than the Emperor himself, suggesting that he should become a convert to the new faith, so that the Church and he might work together for the greater glory of God. The bishops and fathers of the Church, ambitious for their organization, fell for this scheme, and Satan went off laughing to himself. He had got everything he had asked from Jesus three hundred years before; he had got the world’s greatest religion.”

–Upton Sinclair

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499 – “The devil knows your name, but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin, but calls you by your name.”

–Ricardo Ángel Sánchez

446 – “But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian’s daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”

–Mark Twain

335 – “Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista.”

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

–Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife

333 – “Christian, if you cannot say definitively, no matter what, that adults creeping on teenage girls is wrong, do not tell me how you stand against moral relativism.”

–Russell Moore, President of the ERLC of the Southern Baptist Convention

Note: Russell Moore tweeted this to Roy Moore (no relation that I am aware of) supporters in Alabama, pointing out the hypocrisy of supporting a political candidate accused of immoral acts, while claiming to follow a morality set out by your religion.

222 – “How can you worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?”

–anonymous

196 – “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”

–Frederick Buechner

146 – “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

–Solomon, King of Israel