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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

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 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, 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 has ever been the enemy of human love.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

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

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

Christianity is part of the laws of England.

Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Christianity is called a spiritual walk. It's not a run and it's not a jog. It's a walk you do from day to day and that makes you stable.

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

Christianity is not primarily about lifestyle change; it is about knowing God.

Christianity isn't all that complicated ... it's Jesus.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Christianity is part of the law of England.

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.