Quotes About Christianity

In Christian texts prior to the seventeenth century, the word love usually referred to feelings toward God or neighbors rather than toward a spouse.

Here, the Prophet was born in a settled and stable province of a strong Roman Empire. Much as in our timeline, Islamic civilisation, the dar-al Islam , flourished, but under Roman protection. There were no centuries of inter-faith conflict in Europe – no crusades, for instance. Even in the pre-Christian days, the Romans were always pragmatic about local religions. To the Romans, Islam is a muscular sister creed of the Christianity that is their official state religion.

Christianity is the best way to cure gayness—just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.

Model Ptolemeus diterima di gereja Kristen sebagai gambaran alam semesta yang sesuai dengan Kitab Suci, karena punya kelebihan yaitu menyisakan banyak ruang di luar lingkaran bintang-bintang tak bergerak untuk tempat surga dan neraka.

So Paul did not create the baptismal creed embedded in Galatians 3:26–28. The creed, then, must have preceded Paul. But there is not very much in the New Testament that precedes Paul. His voice is the first voice we hear from the nascent Christian movement. That makes Galatians 3:26–28 one of the oldest statements of faith in all of the New Testament, perhaps even the first such statement in all of Christian history.

It's easy to be a Christian when you're living the perfect life. It's easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.

As Christians, we're supposed to be the salt of the earth, not the filler.

We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!"

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.