Quotes About Christianity

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Christians today and for many centuries have assumed that the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2-3 is the source of the belief in original sin. Adam

so long as we have not made the fathers of families not only into Christians but also into apostles, the influence of Christian mothers, great as it is, will be obstructed or short-lived and we will never set the social kingdom of Christ on a firm basis.

47 Entonces dijo Pedro: ¿Quién puede negar el agua del bautismo a los que, como nosotros, han recibido también al Espíritu Santo? 48 Así que mandó bautizarlos en nombre y con el bautismo de nuestro Señor Jesucristo; y le suplicaron que se detuviese con ellos algunos días como lo hizo. 11

40 Entonces Pedro habiendo hecho salir a toda la gente, poniéndose de rodillas, hizo oración; y vuelto al cadáver, dijo: Tabita, levántate. Al instante abrió ella los ojos: y viendo a Pedro, se incorporó. 41

16 Que amó tanto Dios al mundo, que no paró hasta dar a su Hijo unigénito, a fin de que todos los que creen en él, no perezcan, sino que vivan vida eterna.

Call me cynical, but I have difficulty putting much stock in Christianity, when the entirety of the religion was built upon believing an unmarried fifteen-year-old girl's explanation for how she got pregnant.

To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord to those who love him and know him.

On subsequent visits I expanded further on the life and ministry of Jesus

Thomas Paine remains just one of innumerable Christian missionaries whose contributions to science have been denied recognition by men of science.

While such numbers must always be regarded as broad estimates, one study has shown that each day sees some 78,000 new Christians worldwide and each week some 1,000 new churches are established in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Wagner 1983:20-21). Since those figures were published it became known that in China alone the decade of the 1980s saw up to 20,000 new Christians per day.

The goal in Pietism was the service of God in ministry to the world

When we say the rosary — we are saying to God, the Trinity, to the Incarnate Savior, to the Blessed Mother: "I love you, I love you, I love you.

Second, the entire world needs to be re-evangelized, including the vast majority of baptized Christians.

Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.

So many Christians seek to live the pain-free Christian life. Such a life has no impact.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.