Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
– Ambrose Bierce
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- A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
- Beware to entertain strangers, thereby you may entertain an angel unawares…New Testament. – New Testament in EnglishArabic
- The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn’t want sacrifices anymore – Sunday Adelaja
- Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal – Leonard Ravenhill
- The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy. – David R Hawkins
- The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
- How simple our Lord’s word is, Love thy neighbor. Just think how that word has been twisted around, just because it’s hard to love thy neighbor. – Edgar Maass
- Turn to your neighbor and tell him, ‘Neighbor, God is good and everything He does is perfect. – Paul Silway
- Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
- acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
- ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
- diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
- AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. – Ambrose Bierce
- BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
- History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
- So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
- In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
- A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight – Mark Twain
- Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn’t redeemed merely by the fact that it’s Christian. – Kevin Roose
- You can be inspired by others, but when you’re inspired from within then you have real power for change. – Sue Fitzmaurice
- We are inspired only when we seek to be inspired. Then inspiration can be found in everyone and everything. – Akiroq Brost
- Inspired action comes from the guidance of Spirit, not ego. When in doubt, don’t. Inspired action is responsive, not reactive. – Annette Vaillancourt
- With regards any type of manifesting, when you are inspired or not inspired, you created it! – Stephen Richards
- Start a revolution. Love thy neighbor. – Christian Hunt
- The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
- This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers. – PG Wodehouse