Quotes About Christianity

I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.

When you view yourself through the lens of God's Word, you will better understand God's love for you and the worth you have in His eyes.

Jesus was sent to love, so He loved and through this example we ourselves should exemplify love also.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

The only performance that matters is what Jesus Christ did at the Cross - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.

As a Christian your future is secure.

In the final analysis, the only available options are either to reject the cross and with it the core of the Christian faith or to take up one's cross, follow the Crucified-and be scandalized ever anew by the challenge.

The cure against Christian violence is not less of the Christian faith, but, in a carefully qualified sense, more of the Christian faith. I don't mean, of course, that the cure against violence lies in increased religious zeal; blind religious zeal is part of the problem. Instead, it lies in stronger and more intelligent commitment to the Christian faith as faith.

Love of enemies is a central moral conviction of the Christian faith; theologians who see their work as a mode of Christian life ought to love their intellectual "enemies": to respect them as human beings, even to seek their friendship, and certainly not to let a personal squabble rob them of a good and productive argument with them.

Christians should see Muslims, who give ultimate allegiance to God as the supreme good, as allies in resisting the tendency in contemporary culture to see mere pleasure, rather than justice and love, as the hallmark of the good life.

Our theology is insufficiently Christian—and less revealing of the truth than it should be, if Christian claims are indeed true (as we believe them to be)—when we repeat in religious idiom normative stances that nontheologians advocate, often with better arguments and greater rhetorical power.

This is why we believe in Jesus Christ—to help us see that we are not what we ought to be and to help us become what we ought to be.

the central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?

Karl Barth imagined the Christian theologian in the role of John the Baptist in the painting of Matthias Grünewald: he is standing to the side of the cross, holding the open Hebrew Scriptures in one hand and pointing with a finger of the other to the crucified Christ.67 A theologian ought to draw attention to the way of life and to the one who originally embodied it, not to the intellectual prowess, fertile imagination, or dazzling rhetoric of the theologian.

As Christians, we should all have the same ultimate goal concerning our attitudes and behavior: "Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ" (Phil. 1:27).

spiritual Christians no longer wish affiliation with the ways of Fundamentalism, which often leaves the individual empty handed and with an empty heart.

So, Christian Wiccans have agreed to adapt to the basic principles of early Christianity: 1) honoring the Holy Trinity, 2) baptism, 3) communion, 4) strive to seek truth and love, and 5) to continue to read and study all forms of scriptures that each individual finds enlightening and as a guide to their Higher Selves.