Best 4545 quotes in «christianity quotes» category

If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

I see Christianity in very humanistic terms.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.