Steven Pinker Quotes

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.

Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

It's not about terror or anything else, it's about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith. Orthodox rabbis - that is about faith. There's not a single Orthodox rabbi on this list. This is all Reformed rabbis that were - that made this list.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

The cross alone is our theology.

Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?