religious dichotomy Quotes

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war!

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?