Quotes About Christianity

The greatest danger to the church today is not humanism, paganism, atheism or agnosticism. The greatest danger is not increasing hostility against our faith from the culture. Our greatest danger is apostasy on the inside, arising from false teachers- theological liberals who deny and distort biblical doctrine and lead others down the same path.

We should sooner consider ourselves sinless before we ever consider Jesus sinful. As absurd as the former sounds, the latter is much more absurd.

The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and large acts, with family, neighbors and enemies, we are to seek to live out the grace and truth of Jesus. This is our vocation, our calling. Today.

The Word made flesh in Jesus Christ should show through us. We are meant to be primary evidence of the flourishing love, grace and truth in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit.

The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish teacher and thinker appears as a technique for the oppressed . . . It was upon the anvil of the Jewish community's relations with Rome that Jesus hammered out the vital content of his concept of love for one's enemy. Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

Police violence, mass incarceration and the death penalty—the structural triad of the U.S. penal state I term "Lockdown America"—are not just challenges for Christians today, they demand re-thinking and re-creating what Christianity is. The challenges demand not simply sensitizing and mobilizing Christians, but more importantly re-envisioning and redefining just what constitutes "Jesus-followers" today.

Christians who confess that the presence or reign of God was uniquely given, in some mode, with Jesus' presence, are confronted with the need to do a political theology of state terror at the very heart of their Christology and at the heart of their discourse. By

By Christianity's own traditional logic, we are compelled to face and to meditate on a figure who entered into Rome's and Palestine's state-sanctioned theatrics of terror. We

Christians who are able to subvert their own public hegemony of Christianity are able to aid in the dismantling of Lockdown America because that hegemony unleashes many ideological reflexes that often sustain today's capitalist-carceral state.

Even though Christianity in the past and in the present sacralizes suffering, in both subtle and blatant forms, it is not a necessary feature of a Christian understanding of the crucified God. At

Christianity turned its back on these ancient stories of fated decline. But it has never been able to escape historical mythmaking, despite the best efforts of theologians from Augustine to Karl Barth. The reason, as Hegel formulated it so well, is that Christian revelation is based on a unique divine incursion into the flow of historical time that altered but did not delegitimize an earlier divine–human relationship.

After all, the Beatitudes don't tend to look a lot like modern Christianity. We choose a political team. We select a denominational preference. We hitch our cart to a branch of philosophy. Anyone that disagrees is quickly and succinctly judged, and simultaneously disregarded as worthless. Big problem with that approach. We are supposed to be loving those who don't agree with us to Jesus—and you can't love those whom you deem worthless.

But the truth is, we have done more damage to the world's impression of Jesus by feigning inaccurate perfection than we could ever cause by allowing those who don't follow Christ to see us wrestling our sins and flaws to the ground.

How did we take this life picture and somehow misconstrue it to mean that if we just believed in Jesus, our lives would be wealthy, prosperous, and happy? Jesus doesn't promise that. Jesus says that many great things will come to those who follow Him, but He also promises a whole lot of lousy. And here's the key: The lousy isn't rotten. The lousy isn't sin. The focus of your life is not supposed to be dodging lousy. Because lousy is life. And lousy is important.

Life following Christ is not supposed to be a ride. It's supposed to be a fight because there is a very specific villain—and if we don't fight, he wins. If our Christianity aims only for pretty and pleasant and happy and rich, the Enemy becomes the victor.

I stopped being a little Christ and instead began filling out the application that I had labeled Christian. It was not a definition based on the actual namesake, but rather on those who frequent the clubhouse. And in the midst of being an American Christian among all the other American Christians, I stopped truly searching the nuances of who Christ was and is in order to fully grasp what a little Christ might, indeed, act like.

that is what is tremendously missing from modern Christianity: Tangible gratitude for God's grace.

This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation," [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.

This is why governments all over the world love missionaries—they civilize people and get them into the money system," Suelo observes now, but at the time he was flabbergasted. What of Jesus's teaching his followers to give up possessions? "And suddenly it dawned on me: if you were going to call something Antichrist, this would be it. The people who were promoting this so-called Christianity are really Antichrist.

If we think we can turn ourselves into the perfect Christian, we have missed the point of the entire Gospel, and will be making the Christ within us harder to see, not easier. We will be adding more layers and more clutter that one day will simply have to be removed

He said he was concerned about what could still happen to me. I could still be vilified and seen as dangerous, therefore losing me the last remaining bit of respectability I have with the Christian world. I said that after everything I'd been through for the sake of integrity, how could I allow fears like that to control me?

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.