Quotes About Christianity

Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.

The theological denigration of women was a major revision of the assumptions that had informed the Christian movement from the gospels forward. Jesus himself modeled an egalitarian respect toward women: In Christ, 'there is neither male nor female.

Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.

All of these imitators imitated Jesus for one reason: because he was God made man.

Os nazistas foram explícitos ao definir os judeus, desde o início, como o grupo rejeitado em relação ao qual a "totalidade" se definia a si própria. Se a Igreja não ficou ofendida por isso, foi porque o cristianismo tinha feito a mesma coisa.

Por causa da "sombria simbiose" entre o antigo ódio cristão contra os judeus e o racismo moderno, o programa antijudaico de Hitler, mesmo no seu ponto extremo, simplesmente não era tão ofensivo para a ampla população de católicos.

The Jews remain the chosen people of God. The Jewish rejection of Jesus as the Son of God is an affirmation of faith that Christians must respect.

The Gospel, expressing Jewish understanding and hope, was a Jewish invention.

had come here with my three questions. The first: How did the history of Christian antisemitism contribute to the Holocaust? The second: How did the Church abet, or oppose, the Holocaust as it unfolded? And the third: How does the Church today negotiate that layered past, both the deep past of antisemitism and the recent past of the Holocaust? With Edith Stein, that

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.

Davidic lineage of Jesus was so important to the early Christians it is likely that Luke had one of these records available to him.

He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved." Matthew 24:13

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

But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.

there is not one single challenge to Christianity that eclipses all others in importance.

The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

A igreja de Cristo não precisa de profissionais presunçosos, preocupados apenas em administrar a própria carreira. A igreja não precisa de membros voltados para o sucesso que buscam apenas outros vencedores. A igreja não precisa daqueles que esperam uma vida boa porque trabalham com afinco. Antes, os cristãos devem colocar em prática o ideal das profissões: servir, em vez de ser servido. p.38

only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

Only authentic Christianity brings together both truth and grace.

In the "lynching era," between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these "Christians" did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.

And yet the Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality, more than "going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation as I fly." It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating presence among the poor right now in their midst, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side." The gospel is found wherever poor people struggle for justice, fighting for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.