Quotes About Christianity

Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.

Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.

Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

Some preachers need a travel agent to handle all the guilt trips they put on God's people. But there is a big difference between putting a guilt trip on Christians and unveiling Christ to them. When Christ is presented in power, the Spirit of God will undoubtedly convict those who are walking in contradiction to their new nature.

The essential element of Christian truth is that the risen Christ is not something you mimic but someone you manifest.

Haddon Robinson once said, "I have come closer to being bored out of the Christian faith than being reasoned out of it. I think we underestimate the deadly gas of boredom. It is not only the death of communication, but the death of life and hope.

How many Nicodemites are there in every corner of Christianity whose versitis has caused them to be more committed to words than to the Word Made Flesh? How many have made a religion of words and lost sight of God's Image-Made-Story?

Paul recognized that the source and strength of all Christian contentment is God Himself.

Today wife-abuse is a common occurrence and, sadly, is seen sometimes in Christian marriages. Submission does not mean allowing another person to batter us, whether it battering is physical, verbal or emotional.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.