God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith (2015)
“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
Bishop Barron on the Mass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIGXtDR2GCk&feature=youtu.be&t=120 (November 9, 2017)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 93.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 135.
“A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
“You can know a real Christian when you see him, by his bouyancy.”
Twelve Tests of Character (1923); part of this has sometimes been paraphrased: Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Context: Some Christians carry their religion on their backs. It is a packet of beliefs and practices which they must bear. At times it grows heavy and they would willingly lay it down, but that would mean a break with old traditions, so they shoulder it again. But real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings. It lifts them up, it sees them over hard places. It makes the universe seem friendly, life purposeful, hope real, sacrifice worthwhile. It sets them free from fear, futility, discouragement, and sin — the great enslaver of men's souls. You can know a real Christian when you see him, by his bouyancy.
Source: The Gospel of Matthew: Vol. 2, Chapters 11-28
“His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.”
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 46.
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 53
Context: There is a world of difference between the one who would imitate the conduct of the successful merchant, who sits in the front pew of his church, and him who would follow literally the teachings of Jesus Christ. To attain perfectly the one ideal—if it be an ideal—is a comparatively simple task. To attain the other, is perhaps an impossibility.
