Quotes About Christianity

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

Stand up!—stand up for Jesus!

is far more likely that the law of Christ is the law of love that Jesus said embodied the totality of the Old Testament Law (Mt. 22:40).18

The full truth will be disclosed when "the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts" (1:19) — at the parousia.

Evangelists are preachers who carry on the missionary task of preaching the gospel but without the authority of the apostles. The term denotes a function rather than an office.

We can only conclude that the expression "in the flesh" means to live as an unregenerate person, to be a person who is not indwelt by the Spirit of God.

Here we meet the familiar Pauline tension between the indicative and the imperative.

History has been called "an abyss in which Christianity has been swallowed up quite against its will." How

However, certain distinctive Christian elements are evident, the first of which is "the apostles' teaching" or didach?. This included the meaning of the life, death, and exaltation of Jesus, his enthronement as messianic King and Lord inaugurating the messianic age of blessing, and the future eschatological consummation.

Mark therefore shows that the theologia crucis applies to the disciple as well as to the master. There is no room for a privileged triumphalism. "Mark campaigns against balcony-type Christians who are too high for the mission and discipleship that in Mark's terms necessarily involves cross-bearing and self-sacrifice."72

In short, the earliest Christianity did not consist of a new doctrine about God nor of a new hope of immortality nor even of new theological insights about the nature of salvation. It consisted of the recital of a great event, of a mighty act of God: the raising of Christ from the dead. Any new theological emphases are the inevitable meanings of this redemptive act of God in raising the crucified Jesus from the dead.

Europe was barbaric in the sixteenth century, as the self-certainty of Christianity fueled the first conquests. Europe passed into civilization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and then collapsed into decadence in the course of the twentieth century. The United States is just beginning its cultural and historical journey.

Europe was barbaric in the sixteenth century, as the self-certainty of Christianity fueled the first conquests. Europe passed into civilization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and then collapsed into decadence in the course of the twentieth century.

Many verses in the Quran can be construed as including Christians and Jews in the Muslim community, because Muhammad saw himself at first as a missionary to all peoples but later narrowed his intended audience to pagan Arabs. Muhammad became disillusioned with the People of the Book and condemned them as "unbelievers." Conflict with the Jews led to the redefinition of Islam as a new confessional religion and led to new laws and rituals to provide Muslims with a separate identity.

He was an indifferent Christian but the afternoon called for gratitude and belief.

A veces se preguntaba si los indios no estaban mejor antes, cuando eran dueños de California y vivían a su manera, con sus costumbres y sus dioses, pero enseguida se persignaba y pedía perdón a Dios por tamaña herejía. «¡Adónde vamos a parar si yo mismo dudo del cristianismo!», suspiraba, arrepentido.

Decía que el cristianismo, como casi todas las supersticiones, hacía al hombre más débil y resignado y que no había que esperar una recompensa en el cielo, sino pelear por sus derechos en la tierra.

A mí me falla el cristianismo a cada rato, Nuria. Será que soy vasco y bruto, como mi padre, que en paz descanse; digo yo que si hubiera nacido en Luxemburgo tal vez no estaría tan indignado.

He felt that Christianity, like almost all forms of superstition, made men weaker and more resigned, and that the point was not to await some reward in the sky but to fight for one's rights on earth.

He felt that Christianity, like almost all forms of superstition, made men weaker and more resigned

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.

When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make a film about religion in Africa because the prosperity gospel is big business where people are desperate, poor, and sick.

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.