Quotes About Christianity

First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

My buddies tell me that I should have waited. They say I'm missing a whole world of fun. But I am happy and I sing with pride. I like the Christian life.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.

Although these early Christian authors subordinated science and the study of nature to the needs of religion, they often indicated an interest in nature, as did Basil, that transcended the mere ancillary status that the study of nature was customarily accorded.

Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.

Some Christians read Hebrews and conclude that steadfastness makes us God's house. Other Christians (including me) read Hebrews and conclude that steadfastness confirms that we are God's house. Either way the outcome is the same: saving faith trusts and obeys until the very end. Reaching the destination infallibly validates the pilgrim's quest and authenticates the pilgrim's profession.

You can take course after course of so-called theology and never hear the message at the heart of Christianity—the message of Jesus, which is indiscriminate love.

God. Jesus. -Any other Lords' names you want to take in vain? -Yeah...Ganesh, damn it. -Who's Ganesh? -He's a Hindu god. He's the Remover of Obstacles. -Oh yeah? They got a god for that? We could use a Remover of Obstacles. Well, I don't care if you take a Hindu god's name in vain--just lay off Jesus. -Okay, Dad. I'll lay off Jesus. -What's this Remover of Obstacles look like? -I think he's an elephant. -Yeah? An elephant. Jesus Christ, can you believe that?

Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live.

The Orthodox Church, as did the early Christians, does not separate the personal from the communal. We do not confuse "personal" with "individual." Our personal relationship with Jesus is anchored on our communal relationship to the Church as the nurturing and soul-sustaining Body of Christ.

Christianity—which for so long had kept their cringing adherents trapped in a state of "slavery without hope and a perpetual infancy," would finally be revealed for the lies, tricks, and deceits that they were.

Thirdly, we have to raise human beings with a philosophy of ethics. If it's Judaism, wonderful, because it has a basic ethic. If it's Christianity, it has a basic ethic. But we have to raise people with a conscience.

the lighthouse, as a symbol, made no sense. Someone had declared it a Christian beacon of some sort, but a lighthouse wasn't something that led you to a safe harbor, a lighthouse was something that you avoided at all costs, a lighthouse was something you stayed away from lest you and your ship be dashed on the rocks. The most perverse message a lighthouse could ever deliver is come here and be saved.

God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed.

creer que somos "uno" que tiene existencia por sí mismo, desligado de la inconmensurable pluralidad de los propios yoes, representa una ilusión lo demás ingenua, de la tradición cristiana de una alma única (…) porque nosotros tenemos varias almas dentro de nosotros, ¿comprende?, una confederación que se pone bajo el control de un yo hegemónico".

Throughout the years, I have found people are confused about my love for both Christianity and Paganism. I tell them what was revealed to me while I lay sleeping in the hospital. The All, whether perceived as a God, or a Goddess, or as one being, or even as an energy field, cares only about one thing: Love. Absolute and unconditional love. --High Priestess Enoch

For my money, that distinction, hands down, goes to Saul of Tarsus—later Saint Paul, to Christians. Even if you aren't a Christian, hear me out: He was the first-century convert to the teachings of Christ who organized the work of a messianic itinerant preacher into a body of coherent theology and spread it around the ancient world.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

As a Christian, we always fail because we can't become Christ. But I can try to at least emulate the best qualities, even if I may fall short.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.