Quotation Marks
"I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he'd be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool."
Hip-hop artist Lil Wayne, on what he did during his prison sentence on a weapons charge.
Source: Rolling Stone
"To me, this one thing — physical culture and nutrition — is the salvation of America."
Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who died in January at age 96. "Billy Graham is for the hereafter, I'm for the here and now!" he said in 2007.
Source: The New York Times
"Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?"
Billy Graham, on the evangelical resurgence over the last half-century.
Source: Christianity Today Online
"That degree of cruelty, there's no way to recount it. For 48 hours my life hung by a thread."
Gao Zhisheng, in a 2010 interview with the Associated Press, published after the Chinese human rights lawyer disappeared again, presumably into government custody.
Source: Associated Press
"While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is 'a bridge too far.'"
Richard Land, withdrawing as a member of the Interfaith Coalition on Mosques, of which he was a charter member.
Source: Christianity Today Online
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Austin Umukoro
All opinions held or expressed usually self-destruct the very moment there is a lack of clear reference point. If the bible is truly held as a divine reference point then a lot of things will be cleared up. Trouble is even christians do not agree to the Bible as the authentic and divine reference point in all issues of life. Sad indeed.
Greg Peterson
I'm not Islamic (as you might predict from my Norwegian name), though there is nothing wrong with being Islamic, or anything else, in my book, as long as one tries to lead a Golden Rule informed life. God is their leader, just as God is for other monotheistic religions. Yes, even for conservative Christianity, as Jesus is a person of the one God. --An Islamic scholar (who's name I've forgotten, alas) pointed out that the morality that you extract from sacred text (most any text, I would think) likely depends upon the morality you bring to the text. If I remember the piece correctly, I wouldn't disagree. --Quoting stripped of historical and intratextual contexts chapter and two verses to justify genocide doesn't much make Christianity look all that moral, does it? Or, did I read your post wrong? I bet that not many Islamics read CT, which in this case, is probably a good thing. I did point out your post to my friends of many or no faiths on my social network page.
Roger Varland
I believe religious freedom is a constitutional issue. If only Christians can build houses of worship, then we better get an amendment in the works and get rid of the freedom stuff. Who else should be on the "no build" list?