Christianity Quotes

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

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

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

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.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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.