Quotes about Misconceptions

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

It's important to note that Jesus and Christ are two different faith affirmations. Hardly any Christians have been taught that - they think "Christ" is Jesus's last name.

Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

If we think that serving God always leads to greater prosperity, we're selectively reading our Bibles.

Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily

But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.