Quotes About Christianity

When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred.

God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

I am a Mormon because I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I exercise faith in Him, I am blessed with the Holy Spirit in my life.

I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

Inauthenticity among the ranks of those claiming to be Christians can become an almost insurmountable barrier to belief.

A church which bottlenecks its specialists to do its witnessing is living in violation of both [Jesus Christ] and the consistent pattern of the early Christians. Evangelism was the task of the whole church, not just the 'name characters' " (emphasis

Cowards don't last long on their spiritual pilgrimages before they shrivel up and disappear. It takes enormous courage to repent and become a Christian, and then another strong dose of courage to follow God's leadings throughout your life.

Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.

There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they will say. Far from it; I stiffen myself against it for that very reason, for fear of being corrupted by prejudice. But, though I was born in it, I cannot help finding it astonishing.

Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.

For a religion to be true it must have known our nature; it must have known its greatness and smallness, and the reason for both. What other religion but Christianity has known this?

The church has had as much difficulty in proving that Jesus was man, against those who denied it, as in proving that he was God, and both were equally evident.

167] Submission and use of reason; that is what makes true Christianity.

Any man can do what Mahomet did. For he preformed miracles and was not foretold. No man can do what Christ did.

11 All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theatre. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love, principally when it is represented as very chaste and virtuous. For the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it.

Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.