A Quote by Greg L. Bahnsen

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Greg L. Bahnsen

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Christianity Contrary Impossibility Reasonable Virtue

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Greg L. Bahnsen
American - Philosopher
September 17, 1948 - December 11, 1995

Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is a mark of virtue. Pain becomes the inignia of morality - and conversely, pleasure becomes the insignia of immorality. Christianity, therefore, does not say, "Go forth and be miserable." Rather, it says, "Go forth and practice the virtue of self-sacrifice." In practical terms, these commands are identical.

George H. Smith

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Aristotle

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

David Hare

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Julius Charles Hare

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.

Rod Rosenbladt

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Baruch Spinoza

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Sri Aurobindo

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Soren Kierkegaard

Contrary to what some believe, taking all reasonable and feasible precautions to protect civilians - and mitigating the resulting anger when we harm them - does not need to impede military operations.