legalism

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

— Jen Pollock Michel

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

— Brian D. McLaren

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

— C.S. Lewis

A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

— Matt Chandler

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.

— Criss Jami

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

— Criss Jami

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

— Philip Zaleski

Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

— Rebecca Goldstein

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.

— Criss Jami