Christian Quotes - Page 359

I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.

It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.

The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.

Islam developed in opposition to orthodox Christianity from the very start, and it considers itself superior to Christianity. So far, it has only been tolerant in places where it is in the minority.

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible...19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning.

The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

Libertad no es hacer lo que queremos hacer sino hacer lo que debemos hacer.

There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.

Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.

It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.