Christianity Quotes

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.

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.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

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.

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.

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.