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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

True Christianity is love in action.

True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Very few things in life matter.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

We're in danger of losing an even more foundational belief of Christianity: that salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ.

We look for God as though he were not already here.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.

We're going to protect Christianity. We don't have to be politically correct about it.

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly.

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.