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Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching.
- J. P. Moreland (PhD)
Con: Fear of Ridicule
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The way to no longer feel guilty is not to deny guilt, but to face it and ask for Gods forgiveness.
- Randy Alcorn -
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Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.
- Don Feder -
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He must be content to be thought poorly of by others if he pleases God. He must not think it is a strange thing to be mocked, ridiculed, slandered, persecuted, and even hated. He must not be surprised to find his beliefs and Christian lifestyle despised and held up to scorn.
- J. C. Ryle -
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The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.
- Daniel B. Lancaster (PhD) -
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God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.
- Heather Bixler -
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Repentance is the only no shame solution to a renewed Christian conscience, because it only proves the obvious: God was right all along.
- Rosaria Butterfield (PhD) -
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If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.
- Dillon Burroughs -
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You can laugh at Christianity, you can mock it and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. I should say Jesus Christ changes lives. Christianity is not a religion; it’s not a system; it’s not an ethical idea; it’s not a psychological phenomenon. It’s a person.
- Josh McDowell -
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We will give an account one day because we are accountable, and there is a standard. God is the One before whom we are accountable, and our lives will be compared against His perfect character. This is why we feel guilty, because deep down we know we are guilty. Our guilty feelings and sense of shame come because we have violated God’s good and wise commandments.
- Timothy Lane (PhD) -
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When a sinner refuses to come to Christ, he is guilty because he has made a free choice. It reflects his own state of mind, feeling and attitude toward God and His Son. He has acted voluntarily without coercion. It is his decision.
- Walter J. Chantry -
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If you deal with shame without guilt, your problem is the fear of man.
- Voddie Baucham -
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Guilt comes from within. Shame comes from without.
- Voddie Baucham -
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Yet what we as Christians see when we look to the cross is not weakness, but power on display. The power to willingly suffer for the sake of another. The power to hold back wrath when being mocked. The power to rise from the dead. And how was Jesus’ power demonstrated? In meekness, gentleness and humility.
- Randy Smith (PhD) -
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- We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.
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We are to reflect Christ in all that we say and do. And the Christ of Scripture is the humble, suffering servant who, in spite of great opposition, false accusations, and public ridicule, remained faithful to the heavenly calling.
- David Hegg (PhD) -
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- Samuel Johnson -
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The new brand of militant atheism...adopts a mocking and high-handed tone of certainty, sneers at its Christian opponents, and states, or implies, that they must be stupid.
- Peter Hitchens -
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A mocker goes beyond disagreement with the Word of God. They ridicule it and those who follow it. They have no desire for honest debate. No desire to have their opinions changed. They are arrogant, sarcastic and pompous. They are filled with pride, derision and contempt.
- Randy Smith (PhD) -
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Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- Winston Churchill -
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Satan rejoices when old habits overwhelm [us] and we cave in to the pressure of the crowd . . .perhaps temptation lures [us] into sin . . .a backsliding Christian compromises their faith and causes unbelievers to mock the Gospel.
- Billy Graham -
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Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.
- Charles Swindoll -
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Honestly, I don’t know what will really happen on Judgment Day. But what I lean toward is that you know all of your sins, and God knows them all, and shame comes over you at the reality that He knows. I believe the fact that I’ve accepted Jesus as my savior will be my salvation.
- Chris Kyle -
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You are indeed guilty in yourself, but God no longer regards you as guilty, because the guilt of your sin has already been borne by Christ as your substitute. The sentence has been served. The penalty has been paid.
- Jerry Bridges -
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He knew He would be exposed to terrible privation, to ridicule, to false accusations, to rumor, gossip and malicious charges that branded Him as a glutton, drunkard, friend of sinners and even an imposter. It entailed losing His reputation. It would involve physical suffering, mental anguish and spiritual agony.
- W. Phillip Keller -
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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt.
- Fulton Sheen -
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I die with joy, for I desire to be united to my God. Live so as not to fear death. For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening, but sweet and precious.
- St. Rose of Viterbo -
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi -
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The usual snare with which the devil catches the young is to fill them with shame when they are about to confess their sins. When he pushes them to commit sins, he removes all shame, as if there were nothing wrong with it, but when they are going to confession, he returns that shame magnified and tries to convince them that the priest will be shocked by their sins and will no longer think well of them.
- St. John Bosco -
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Remorse for sin does have a place in the Christian life, but we should be very sure what function it serves. Guilt should drive us to the cross, but grace must lead us from it. Guilt makes us seek Christ, but gratitude should make us serve Him. Guilt should lead to confession, but without a response of love as the motive of renewed obedience, true repentance never matures.
- Bryan Chapell (PhD) -
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When he says were forgiven, lets unload the guilt. When he says were valuable, lets believe him. . . . When he says were provided for, lets stop worrying. Gods efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless
- Max Lucado -
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God wills our liberation, our exodus from Egypt. God wills our reconciliation, our return from exile. God wills our enlightenment, our seeing. God wills our forgiveness, our release from sin and guilt.
- Marcus J. Borg (PhD) -
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Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.
- J. C. Ryle -
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And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him. Then you will be able to rest in Him — really rest — and start the next day as a new life.
- St. Teresa Benedicta -
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In the exercise of His common grace, God displays patience and forbearance with the world. But patience and forbearance ought to lead men and women to repentance. Instead, it emboldens the unbeliever in his sinful rebellion and mocking of God, and the patience of God is then turned into a rationale to rebel further against God.
- Harry Reeder (PhD) -
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It is not sinners, but the wicked who should despair; it is not the magnitude of ones crime, but contempt of God that dashes ones hopes.
- St. Gabriel Possenti -
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When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.
- Samuel G. Freedman -
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”
- St. Francis of Assisi
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