Quotes About Christianity

The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

The mindset of a Christian should be based on his faith that God can change the circumstances in His life

Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.

Holy Saturday is the time to remember family and the faithful who have died as we await the Resurrection, or to honour the martyrs who have given their lives to the cause of Christ in the world. Holy Saturday is a time for reflection and waiting, a time of weeping that lasts for the night while awaiting the joy that comes at Easter.

Holy Saturday is a day to pray for those who walk among us as the living dead. Their hope is placed in all things other than Christ and, for them, death will be ultimate, final, and hopeless.

The Christian year has a rhythm, each season its own tonality and coloration. Without Lent, the year is bland.

The world teaches us that if it is too good to be true that it probably is. As Christians, we have renew our minds and believe that if it is good, it is ours! Because there is no good thing that God will withhold from us.

Catharism was the greatest heretical challenge faced by the Catholic Church in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The attempt by the Cathars to find an answer to the fundamental religious and philosophical problems posed by the existence of evil, combined with their success in persuading large numbers of Christians in the West that they had solved these problems, shook the Catholic hierarchy to its very core, and provoked a series of reactions more extreme than any previously contemplated.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

Jesus himself, even in his obscurity, dreaded the gathering of crowds, and where possible avoided them. Everything in Christianity that matters is from individual to individual; collectivities belong to the Devil, and so easily respond to his persuasion. The Devil is a demagogue and sloganeer; Jesus was, and is, concerned with individual souls, with the Living Word. What he gives us is truth carried on the wings of love, not slogans carried on the thrust of power.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Gott will nicht tote Christen, sondern Christen, die ihrem Herrn leben. Hören wir dieses Wort nicht, so ist Weihnachten an uns vorübergegangen.

Die echte christliche Verantwortung umfaßt das Ganze des weltlichen Handelns, sie läßt sich keineswegs auf irgendeinen isolierten religiösen Bereich beschränken.

Unser Gebet ist vermitteltes Gebet, vermittelt durch Christus, dem Mittler. Dass wir im Gebet zu Gott kommen können, ist keine religiöse Selbstverständlichkeit, sondern ist ermöglicht allein durch Christus. Kein Gebet kann den Weg zu Gott finden, das nicht der Fürsprecher Jesus Christus aufnimmt und für uns betet, das nicht im Namen Jesu Christi gebetet ist.

Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht etwas jenseits des Menschlichen, sondern es will mitten im Menschlichen sein. Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht ein Selbstzweck, sondern es besteht darin, daß der Mensch als Mensch vor Gott leben darf und soll.

Wir wollen reden zu dieser Welt, kein halbes, sondern ein ganzes Wort, ein mutiges Wort, ein christliches Wort.

Von Gott nicht mehr loskommen können, das ist die dauernde Beunruhigung jedes christlichen Lebens.

Christentum entspringt aus der Begegnung mit einem konkreten Menschen: Jesus.

Alles, was wir mit Recht von Gott erwarten, erbitten dürfen, ist in Jesus Christus zu finden.

Weil Jesus Christus die menschgewordene Liebe Gottes zu den Menschen ist, darum ist er nicht der Verkünder abstrakter ethischer Ideologien, sondern der konkrete Vollstrecker der Liebe Gottes.