Libba Bray Quotes

Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son asks him about what is happening. It's a paradoxical moment. He can't be fully present for his God or his son.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

The end must justify the means.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.