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Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

Muslims who convert to Christianity are not protected. That carries capital punishment. He would be given the opportunity to repent, and the Sharia court would need to determine if he was really a Muslim in the first place, did he know what he was doing, and once all of that has been determined, there is capital punishment for that in Islam.

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

One Almighty is more than all mighties

One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.

Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.