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I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.
For my part, it was Greek to me.
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary ...
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.
For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say."
"The thing was written with salt," Irulan translated.
I die for speaking the language of the angels.
Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.
I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.
No religion but blasphemes a little.
Latin, Greek, and English, plus a smattering of Italian and fucking French." "Fucking French, you say? Well . . ." "Oui," said I, in perfect fucking French.
Tie my heart in Egyptian threads.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
The oil and wine of merry meeting.
We are not speaking gibberish. We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great Calipha and Saladin, the most beautiful intricate of all human tongues. "
" Well it sounds like a Racoon clearing it's throat.
The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace
squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.
Denominations divide while the cross unites.
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus' divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.
Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
[Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]
But it is infamous that they have not told you!' declared Eustacie. 'Je n'en reviendrai jamais!'
'If it's all the same to you, miss, I'd just as soon you'd talk in a Christian language,' said Mr. Stubbs.
The Zenjirli inscriptions supply far more suggestive criteria, and show how cautious we must be in coming to conclusions respecting the unity of the Aramaic language. These inscriptions are in many ways more akin to Hebrew and Assyrian than to Aramaic.
Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications
While we have the freedom to share our love for God with Him and His people in our own language, let's make sure that what we are writing about is orthodox and embraces the "whole counsel of Scripture."
Maktub" (It is written.)
God for us, God alongside us, God within us.
but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
Which god ruled your nameyear?"
"Sewing."
She squinted, then laughed.
He smiled a little, yet said, "You shouldn't laugh."
She laughed harder.
"Actually, I sew quite well.
Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.
As a text, the Quran is more than the foundation of the Islamic religion; it is the source of Arabic grammar. It is to Arabic what Homer is to Greek, what Chaucer is to English: a snapshot of an evolving language, frozen forever in time
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but refuses to come in Hebrew. To some extent I made up my Hebrew. Unquestionably, the influence of Arabic is dominant, my syntax is almost Arabic.
Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.
I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.
Master To Be Mastered A Master
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
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October 18, 2016
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende
In this study, we will be attempting to answer the pivotal question: How does God want to be worshipped? How we want to worship God is irrelevant.
The study of the cultures of antiquity in general, and of ancient Egypt in particular, can serve to guide us out of the secular and dualistic impasse that we now face.
Walk in God's footsteps, Ferro Maljinn." "Huh. They have no God here." "Say rather that they have many." "Many?" "Had you not noticed? Here, each man worships himself.
The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek.
Thinking for the Sake of Global Faithfulness: Encountering Islam with the Mind of Christ THABITI ANYABWILE
A feast of languages
Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.
There is a god in writing.
a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me.
Thank U God
for making me such a wonderful person
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Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Babaji
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek ... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
The chief business of the Christian minister.
Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.
(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise
A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations.
Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.
I love you is biblical.
A sensitive message by a sensitive woman :
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Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 5, 2016
Amen
God
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.
There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.
It was deliciously pagan.
The Christian worldview, contra-postmodernism, understands language not as a Self-referential, merely human and ultimately arbitrary system of signs that is reducible to contingent cultural factors, but it has the gift of a rational God entrusted to beings made in his own image and likeness.
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God ...
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim.
When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
The tropical night has the companionability of a Roman Catholic Cathedral compared to the Protestant Churches of the North, which let you in on business only. Here in the great room everybody comes and goes, this is the place where things are going on.
In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...
I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.
Injil: The book that Muslims believe Allah sent to Jesus, often considered to be the gospels of the New Testament
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Anatasia
You Are My More
My Love, My Life
Christian
Hail, Dog of God, was how he welcomed me my first day in Demarest. Took a week before I figured out what the hell he meant. God. Domini. Dog. Canis. Hail, Dominicanis.
This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.
I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Bhagwan' (God, Self) and 'Paramatma' (Supreme or absolute Self); these two words are spoken. Muslims speak the two words-'Khuda' (God, Self) and 'Allah' (Supreme spirit, Absolute Self). Allah is used for Paramatma and Khuda is used for Bhagwan.
There was something called Christianity.
Great God.
Glorious God.
Gracious God.
(Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.
What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?
The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph.
Arabic, like Greek, had been a scientific language early on,
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
We are pagans. We deify each other.
The Vatican takes your breath away.
Know what happened to these Alexandrian manuscripts? The Roman Catholics used them as the foundation for their Bible. Then they spent nine centuries hunting down the real Bible to destroy it. But faithful Christians protected it - even with their blood.
The Arabian peninsula is the origin of all the Semites.
The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.
The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky ...