Quotes About Christianity

Modesty is not a religion in itself but rather a twofold act of the will for God's glorification. Therefore we must work towards and possess a well-formed conscience, practice prudence and try to live a life of holiness, which the Church calls Christians to do anyway.

Christians must act according to their state in life, respecting and glorifying God in all circumstances. Though what may constitute indecent, immodest, or improper decorum at one time or place may not necessarily be so at another.

A tradition or societal custom of bowing to one another when meeting, or tipping the hat as gentlemen used to, can be changed. But it is not a morally problematic custom. Customs may come and go through time and the different cultures in a country, city, or state. Still, Christians are called by the Church to look beyond this and discern if whether it pushes the boundaries of Christian morality or is just a harmless custom.

All in all, this shows that not every bad person dresses immodestly, and not every well-dressed person is holy, but it merely clarifies the pagan characteristics of public nudity and the Christian roots of reverencing the human body.

It is interesting to note that immodesty in dress was not solely a problem of the 1960s till today, but it continued through time as other vices which the Church never failed to warn of and condemn. And it was a constant theme in pagan cultures, while Christianity always promoted dignity in dress.

According to some estimates, by the early 1930s around a fifth of all Protestant clergy held Nazi sympathies while one in four was a party member. Many showed no hesitation in "worshipping" Hitler in their sermons and prayers. Indeed, a number of German Christians were so fanatically pro-Nazi that they called for Hitler's Mein Kampf to replace the Bible, since it was now "the people's most sacred text; their greatest, purest and truest moral code.

The questioning of any and all entities, including belief and its objects, is one of Christianity's most impressive legacies; and humanism, its rebellious child, must not be prevented from developing this legacy [ « et l'humanisme, son enfant rebelle, ne saurait être empêché de développer ce legs. » ].

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.

My mission in life is to get to heaven, so the people I have in my inner circle I don't allow to do the 'rule breaking' that we know as Christians we can't.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

I believe in some parts of Nietzsche, I prefer to read him in sections; In my heart of hearts I suspect him of being the one modern christian; Take notice I never have read him except in English selections.

Although the medieval witch-cult of Western Europe derived from a primitive, non-selfconscious nature-religion, with sophistication it had become corrupt (as had paganism in ancient Greece) and developed into a pathological cult in which the doctrine and rites of the Christian Church were deliberately parodied, and evil instincts and desires were sanctioned and encouraged.

Oddly, Leon Stover, in Robert A. Heinlein, one of the best close readers in other ways, comes away with the idea that Heinlein 'defends the traditional ethics of Christian civilisation' (p. 61) which is a hard argument to make given the amount of out-of-wedlock sex in his work and the satirisation of so much Christian practice in Stranger in a Strange Land and Job.

The Qur'?n does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or Hinduism; indeed, there is hardly a passage in the Qur'?n that says that man is composed of two separate, let alone disparate, substances, the body and the soul.

La conversion de Constantin est le fait le plus important de l'histoire du monde méditerranéen entre la constitution de l'hégémonie romaine et l'établissement de l'Islam. C'est à lui qu'est dû le triomphe du christianisme qui, en bouleversant la psychologie des hommes, a creusé un abîme entre nous et l'Antiquité. Depuis l'adoption du christianisme, nous vivons sur un autre plan.

On a soutenu que le christianisme avait mis fin à l'art antique. Dans une certaine mesure cette opinion peut se justifier. Le christianisme, et aussi l'Islam, à l'imitation de leur père le Judaïsme, répugnent par essence à ce qui fait la beauté de l'Art antique, la plastique.

Une civilisation 'seconde': comme le christianisme a hérité de l'Empire romain qu'il prolonge, l'Islam se saisira, à ses débuts, du Proche-Orient, l'un des plus vieux, peut-être le plus vieux carrefour d'hommes et de peuples civilisés qui soit au monde.

Le christianisme s'affirme une réalité essentielle de la vie occidentale et qui marque, sans qu'ils sachent ou le reconnaissent toujours, les athées eux-mêmes.

L'humanisme de la Renaissance se présente comme le dialogue de Rome avec Rome, de la Rome païenne avec la Rome du Christ, de la civilisation antique avec la civilisation chrétienne. Assurément, l'un des plus riches dialogues - jamais interrompu - qu'ait connu l'Occident.