Another collection of bite-sized quotations from various sources. Enjoy!

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Yes, it’s true fascism doesn’t take a vacation^[1], but that’s because fascism despises joy. It is antithetical to peace. Its goal is to gradually squeeze and suffocate the lightness out of people so that they stop dreaming, stop planning, stop dancing. Its authors are inherently miserable people whose sole joy consists of replicating themselves by reproducing despondency.
– John Pavlovitz

To Pharisees condemning the ministry of inclusion: “You are just the jealous older brother (from the Prodigal story). You have worked hard to earn the Father’s favour, only to be told that you had His favour all along. And now you want to deny it to the Prodigals out there. Well, shame on you”.
– Me

“God doesn’t look at the world through the lens of judgment. He looks through the empty tomb Jesus stepped out of. And when He rose, He raised the world into a new status: Forgiven, Loved, and Included. This is the human race. To everybody in the human race… to anybody here that’s not a born-again Christian…. He raised you to this status: You are forgiven, you are loved, and you are included”.
– Creflo Dollar

[As a comment on a YouTube video] This song [Oceans] is at its best when people are allowed to live out the words without judgment from others. When you walk out into depths where only Jesus can hold you up, others may fear for you and criticise you – but there is no fear in Love. If it’s your time to emerge from the chrysalis, the caterpillars will not understand the beautiful butterfly you have become. If you know, you know.
– Me

JUST IN CASE YOU HAD ANY DOUBTS.. The Father does not need your decision, choice or belief to justify you, make you righteous, forgive you, love you unconditionally or accept you into the family….

That is the gospel !!
– Don Keathley

IN JESUS DWELLS THE fullness of the Godhead bodily and you are complete in Him. Col 2:9-10…… SO YOU CAN quit your begging for more of Him, more power, more anointing, more of the Holy Spirit. It is time to tune in to the Spirit of Truth and fully awaken to who you have always been and what you have always fully possessed.
– Don Keathley

My reply to the above was:

So in the Garden, when the serpent told the woman that if she ate the fruit, she would be like God, it was offering her what she already had. Is that, then, a parallel with what religion offers: it promises to give us what we already have?
– Me

“I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me”.
– Mike Myers

“How do I know I’m standing on the right side of history? There is a simple answer. The wrong side of history will tell you to be afraid. The right side of history will expect you to be brave.”
– JB Pritzker, Illinois Governor

For the purposes of righteousness, the Law is useless
– Me

Religion made it all about fear. Grace makes it all about freedom. Say goodbye to legalistic rules and enjoy the fruit of a loving relationship. That is the grace walk experience.
– Steve McVey

God isn’t disillusioned with us because he never had any illusions to begin with. He knows us and loves completely.
– Graham Cooke

The Gospel of Jesus Christ allows you to walk out of Prison. Religion causes prisoners to merely change cells.
– Rex Gaskey

Their sharp and steely eyes [of people steeped in a lifetime of religious legalism] are likely on the lookout for others’ ‘sin’, too. That’s the final destination of the atrophication of those with a religious spirit.
– Me

Often, we see only
What we want to see,
Get only
What we expect to get,
And accept only
What we’ve been taught to accept . . .
When we read the Bible.
– Mo Thomas

Threatening an atheist with hell, is like threatening a nudist with a wedgie…
– Derrick Day

There is a real dignified beauty about secret giving. No wonder Jesus was so in favour of it.
–  Me

[Social media] all reward engagement, not accuracy
– Robin Jackson

All Evangelical Christians know that the Bible was simply dropped from the sky by God. There were a lot of fatalities in mediaeval times from falling Bibles, primarily because they were so heavy. Apparently the same was true of the Pyramids:

– Me

Literature does the most wonderful thing: it takes the lost ‘now’ and places it right in front of you
– Anon (Quoted from a BBC Radio 4 Book Club advert)

They [Christians wanting to justify their behaviour] make it up as they go along. Romans 13:1-2 [that says that a Christian should obey the lawful authorities] is fine as long as they agree with those they are under. As soon as they don’t, it’s Acts 5:29, “We must obey God rather than people”. They get to choose which Bible verse they want to ignore based on their own leanings. Of course, this also proves that the Bible contradicts itself, much to the annoyance of Inerrantists!
– Me

I agree with F.F. Bruce that “eternal conscious torment” [i.e. ‘Hell’ – Ed] is inconsistent with the revealed nature of God in Jesus.
– Richard Murray