Christianity Quotations

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

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.

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

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

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

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

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.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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.

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

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

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

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

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.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

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

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

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

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

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

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Very few things in life matter.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

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

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

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

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

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

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

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.

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

The Lord help me to press after God forever

Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

He who would pray, must obey.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.