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In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

I see Christianity in very humanistic terms.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

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

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.

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

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

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

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

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

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 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's too early for a Polish pope.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.