Christian wisdom quotes # 2!
1) “The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”
-Billy Graham
To say that Christian life is not a constant high is to say that it isn't only about feeling good, for there are many times in life when we endure hardships and trials and we must overcome it not alone, but with Jesus holding our hand. To have no hardships in life is to have it easy whereas in trials in life our symbolizes us overcoming it through God's help. God doesn't just take us out of our misery but He wants to go through it with us together. Even if we are saved, we will always sin and therefore, we must come before God to make things right. God must cover His eyes to no longer see us as a sinner once we are saved, when in actuality we are sinners by nature and sinners for life. If God doesn't cover His eyes, not a single soul will be righteous enough to be able to enter the kingdom of God after leaving this world.
2) “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.”
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
To see Christianity to be a better being than the rest of the world is not Biblical. It makes the rest of the world as if it is some kind of competition. Christianity is all always living in accordance to God's commands and it isn't God command to consider ourself to be better than anyone else. We must live our life as an example, in order for the people of the world to want to become a Christian too. Therefore, this is how separating ourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. Competition starts out as something small, but in the end, the violence is a definite part of it and it becomes something big of a matter later on.
3) A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
-Billy Graham
Gossips happen because of the unfairness of the world, and it seems to make things right for how the world is, but, in actuality it only stirs up a continuous issue amongst human beings. We only say good things to our pet parrot for saying anything negative to our pet will only make a big image of ourself. In order to give our pet parrot to the town gossip we must understand why gossips happen, and that it happens to everybody else as well, and forgiving the world is what God wants even though it seems that we should gossip about the world as well, because of the unfairness of the world. This is what makes up to be a real Christian by living the life of a Christian rather than just by words.
4) “I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.”
-Stephen Baldwin
Jews and Christians both share roots in the Hebrew Bible and a commitment to one God and differ on the belief of the identity of Jesus, the nature of divinity, and the path to salvation. Since there are so many religions in this world and all of them become believable if we lean our ears into it, Christianity may seem to be wrong. However, in the end of it all, Christianity can be proven to be right through the happenings in the way of life. Christianity is all about believing in the Biblical scripture for what it is while other religions are all based on perspectives. Once we know that perspectives are merely perspectives and the Christian word of God is what comes to light at the end of it all the rest of humanity can become saved Christians as well. To believe in the same root in the Hebrew Bible is a stepping stone to become a Christian, even as a Jew, in which it takes the happenings in our life and the choice we make to become a Christian or not.
5) “I reflected much on that vain (being too proud of your own looks, abilities, or worth (conceited), or failing to get a result (useless or unsuccessful)) desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.”
-John Wesley
We must love ourself, in order to love others is a widely known saying. But the question is how do we put others first and us last when this is so ? If we love ourself, we must be able to kill ourself to put others first. As a Christian to put others first and kill ourself is believable to not love oneself. When we see the outter appearance of Jesus when He lived in our world it seems as if He was praising Himself when He expressed Himself to the people of the world. However, if we copy His appearance, we end up failing, while if we just are naive enough to copy His appearance without a perspective of thought we can achieve the same result. To only see the outter appearance of Jesus shows of how little we know of Jesus, while to be able to be naive enough to just follow in accordance shows how much we understand Christianity. Therefore, Christianity isn't about how much we understand the Bible, but it is about just merely believing in it to be right and living in accordance to the scriptures.