There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.
Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Only fools worship their tools
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.
God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.
