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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 a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

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

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.

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

It's too early for a Polish pope.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

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

Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.

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

Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

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.

...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.

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 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 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.