Christianity Quotes

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.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

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.

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

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.

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

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

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.

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.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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.

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.