Quotes About Christianity

Christians must not forbear speaking the truth, for fear of offending others. The false teachers who drew the Galatians from the truth of the gospel were designing men. They pretended affection, but they were not sincere and upright. An excellent rule is given. It is good to be zealous always in a good thing; not for a time only, or now and then, but always. Happy would it be for the church of Christ, if this zeal was better maintained.

The foundation of Christian practice must be laid in Christian knowledge and faith.

This is the will of God: that you be saints." (1 Thessalonians 4:3)

Living holy lives is the goal of the Christian life and our essential purpose.

You could fill whole libraries with the lies that have been told about Christians and Christianity. The world lies about this subject more than anything else.

Lies are always swirling around Christianity. Other common lies today include: Christians hate all non-Christians; Christians think everyone else is going to hell; smart people are not Christian; Christianity is dying and won't be around for much longer.

The moral he drew from the story of ancient slavery in 1836 was that Christianity's benevolent influence had almost imperceptibly and with the spirit of love abolished slavery.

Most men are good Christians in the verdict of their own opinion; but you know the law alloweth no man to be a witness in his own case, because their affection usually overreacheth conscience, and self-love deceiveth truth for its own interest.

Así que un hombre puede llorar por el pecado, y sin embargo ser sólo un casi cristiano. Puede entristecerle pensar en la muerte que trae el pecado, pero no le entristece que el pecado lo contamina y lo pervierte.

que aun cuando muchos se llaman cristianos, no saben lo que es un cristiano, o si lo saben, aún no saben lo que implica ser un cristiano.

Doctrina: Hay muchos en el mundo que son solo casi cristianos; muchos que están cerca del cielo, pero nunca están lo suficientemente cerca; muchos que están en medio de un poco de salvación, pero nunca disfrutarán de la más mínima salvación; tienen el cielo a la vista y, sin embargo, nunca verán a Dios.

Doctrina: Que hay muchos en el mundo que casi "lo son", pero al final son solo casi cristianos

Para que un hombre sea completamente cristiano, debe haber luz en sus pensamientos y fervor en su corazón; conocimiento en la comprensión y celo en los afectos.

Ahora, cualquiera que sea la medida de conocimiento, que un hombre pueda tener de Dios y de Jesucristo, si no es un conocimiento para salvación (conocimiento unido con afecto y aplicación), él es solo un casi cristiano.

los dones pueden hacer de un hombre un erudito, pero la gracia hace de un hombre un creyente. Ahora bien, si los dones no pueden cambiar el corazón, entonces un hombre puede tener los mejores dones y, sin embargo, ser sólo un casi cristiano.

There is an atheism in Christianity, religion of God made man, where Christ dies, abandoned by God.

No Christian grows spiritually beyond his need to acknowledge and abandon sin with a broken heart and godly sorrow.

The archbishop of Canterbury declared that Christians were allowed to pray for victory, but the archbishop of York disagreed. While the war was a righteous one, he said, it was not a holy one: "We must avoid praying each other down.

because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.

I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified.