Here are some quotes that I like or that seem relevant to my life at the moment:
There are certain doors you have to go through alone.
—Joe Banks (from Joe Versus the Volcano)
Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? “Father, save me from this hour”? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name!
—Jesus
I am the way and the truth and the life.
—Jesus
Kamikaze, my death is gain
I’ve been marked by my Maker, a peculiar display
The high and lofty, they see me as weak
’Cause I won’t live and die for the power they seek
—dc Talk
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
—John the Baptist
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
—Walt Whitman
YOP!
—A Who from “Horton Hears a Who”
Tags: Christianity
Is the first quote a reference to C.S. Lewis’ analogy to Christianity?
“[Mere Christianity] is…like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms….it is in the rooms, not in the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in….[While in the hall] you must keep on praying for light: and, of course, even in the hall, you must obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling. In plain language, the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is there holiness here? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to knock at this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike of this particular door-keeper?’ “