Quotes About Christianity

I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

True Christianity is love in action.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

It is through us Christians that the world must know the love of the Savior

The Good News of love must be a lifestyle, not a program for Christian

stay Christian while rejecting supremacy and embracing solidarity instead.

Surely many courageous Christians spoke out against the savagery of their so-called civilized fellow Christians? And surely many compassionate Christians spoke out for the humanity of the so-called savages? Sadly, very, very few actually did, notable among them a Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas. His

Brian D. McLaren

A growing proportion of smart and honest Christians of each new generation will abandon the sinking ship, just as they have been doing for centuries in Europe and decades in the United States. In the not-too-distant future, Christianity will only exist in those enclaves where authoritarian leaders rule over submissive flocks who enfold their religious lives within the assumptions of the first axial age.

If you see Christian identity as a pathway to innocence—as many if not most Christians currently see it

Actually, maybe the problem is not us. Maybe the problem is Christianity. Maybe the product doesn't perform according to its advertising. Maybe there's something wrong with the religion itself, at least in its current form.

I'm often asked if I have hope for Christianity. These days, I say, "My hope for Christianity depends on my hope for humanity, and we humans are not trending well." And in that realization, I find a compelling reason to stay Christian.

if you and I do not stay Christian, if we give up whatever little voice and influence we have inside the larger Christian community, won't we be an answer to the misguided prayers of the religious company men and their followers, who want the rest of us gone?

Instead, it was a Christianity engaged with modernity (and postmodernity) — grappling with its issues, sensitive to its questions and concerns, aware of its spiritual vacuum, in vital dialogue with its artistic and intellectual leaders. It was a "third-way" faith seeking to steer a course that would avoid defensive retreat and isolation on the one hand and capitulation and sellout on the other.

This papal document—which has not yet been repudiated by the Catholic Church—was the basis for the Christian justification of colonialism and the building of competitive Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, Belgian, German, and other Euro-Christian empires that spanned the world.13 It was the genocide card that was given to every white Christian nation.

The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous sisters and brothers on Turtle Island were killed at the hands of other Europeans, as nation after imperial nation, bearing Christ on their lips and crosses on their military standards, followed suit.21

Christianity was like McDonald's, I concluded: the menu was limited and predictable, but its familiarity felt as comforting as a cheeseburger. What it lacked in nourishment it made up for in convenience.

do we Christians want to continue to enfranchise scoundrels who hold the right beliefs but perpetuate harm?

This rediscovery and rearticulation are necessary because so many elements of our Christian practice have lost their meaning and joy for us. For example, I can no longer sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" or other militant Christian hymns, knowing the harm done by the fusion of militaristic Christianity and colonialism.

These emerging Christian leaders realize that if their message isn't good news for the poor, a message of liberation for the oppressed, it isn't the same message Jesus proclaimed.

Since many Christians see God as an absolute authoritarian, we shouldn't be surprised when they prefer authoritarian leaders to democratic ones.