Christianity Quotes - Page 8

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

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.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

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

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

The longer I live, the more I find I don't know

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.

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

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

Christianity is a religion for losers.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

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

God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful.

Christianity is Christ!

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.