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But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

Cathleen Falsani: What is sin? Barack Obama: Being out of alignment with my values.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Chase God's heart today. Christianity has got to be more than a label, a lingo, and a lifestyle.

Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission.

Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute.

Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.

Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.

Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting.  It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.

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

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.