Christianity Quotes - Page 23

Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

I see Christianity in very humanistic terms.

As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I dont agree with. Im not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.