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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he's dangerous. When you rage at him, you're just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a few times in church history.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the most powerful spirit in the universe. I know by experience he is not a mere human being. He is something beyond that.
- Cumulative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.
- Every Sunday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020