Quotes About Christianity

Jesus comes first. Then others. Then yourself. All of our decisions come down to that. Christ taught us to live in community. He wants us to be His hands and feet.

What many Christians focus on is a view of the world as full of opportunities for grace.

I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

In the minds of most people, Christianity is supposed to be about love of God and neighbor (even though it is true that at the heart of Christianity does not lie human love at all, but God's love for humanity24

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to judge, but I've read the gospels quite a few times, and it seems pretty clear that 'Christian values' are: 1-humility, 2-non-judgementalism, 3-caring for the poor, 4-compassion, 5-love, and 6-serving God.

Están robándonos las ovejas. Así describió un jesuita la oleada de cambios que barren el cristianismo en América Latina,

Ustedes recuerdan lo que dijo Jesucristo? Que más fácil será que un camello entre por el ojo de una aguja que un rico entre al Reino de los Cielos. —El auditorio celebra. Él continúa—: Nosotros no queremos ser ricos. ¡Ser rico es malo! Es inhumano, así lo digo, y condeno a los ricos.

They are stealing our sheep". So one Jesuit described the tide of change sweeping Christianity in Latin America, long a Catholic bastion. Who are "they"? The new evangelical, Pentecostalist, and charismatic Protestant churches that have sprouted across the region in the last thirty years..... But the sheep have not been stolen. The sheep aren't sheep anymore: they are consumers, and they have found a more attractive product in the market for salvation.

That man smokes a pipe, and that man drinks liquor—but I do believe he is a Christian!

calendar.We insert the mysteries of Christ's life into the seasons and the times of the year, beginning with Advent and carry on to Pentecost, from November to June approximately. This allows us to live these mysteries in ways which give access to the full reality of resurrection. Christianity is not a new religion, it is a new form of existence. It is the introduction of the dimension of resurrection into the spatio-temporal continuum of ordinary daily life.

As far back as about the year 400 A.D., St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo in Africa and one of the great fathers of Christianity, had this to say: The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

All began in the name of Civilisation, Christianity, Commerce and then Colonisation.

The credit must be given to Luke for spreading Christianity to other races.

The last words, or the seven sayings of Jesus on the cross can be said to form the backbone of Christianity.

Those who are confused and refer to Jesus as a god, there is no doubt that Jesus was a great man of God sent to carry the message to the lost sheep.

Those who wish to pray in the 'name of Jesus' should use the name Yeshua instead.

Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on the street (people think) are having a wonderful time enjoying human life to the fullest, and we in the church are sort of cramped and constricted. Well, things shouldn't be that way. Being a Christian is supposed to make you more truly human , more fully yourself. That means that you are supposed to become somebody who is reflecting the image of God.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

Christian ethics is not a matter of discovering what's going on in the world and getting in tune with it. It isn't a matter of doing things to earn God's favor. It is not about trying to obey dusty rulebooks from long ago or far away. It is about practicing, in the present, the tunes we shall sing in God's new world.

The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to?