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Very few things in life matter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

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

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.

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.

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

What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

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.

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

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

Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?

Why not give Christianity a trial?

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.