Religious Acts

Religious Acts 

“Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better.  If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.”   

Tullian Tchividjian (b. 1972), professor of Theology and pastor  

“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

 Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), author and aviator     

“God proved His love on the Cross.  When Christ hung, and bled, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”

Billy Graham (b. 1918), evangelical preacher

 “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), Baptist minister and leader of the civil rights movement    

 “You don’t choose your family.  They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

Desmond Tutu (b. 1931), South African retired Anglican bishop    . 

 “Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.  This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”

 Albert Camus (1913–1960), French author and philosopher