Quotes About Christianity

There seems to be a 1600 year gap in pole shift references after Seneca, because as Christianity spread, the Church formed and covered up evidence of anything that did not support their biblical narrative.

Western men are openly hostile toward the Christian faith, I believe most are simply ambivalent toward it. What's more troubling, the men who do go to church seem to become more passive and detached by the

lamented, "Too often sissy fellows have paraded themselves as representatives of Christianity's crowning work and characterization

Better is one day in the company of those bullied by Christians but loved by Jesus than thousands in the company of those wielding scripture to harm the weak and defenseless.

It says something really terrible when the least safe place to deal with sexual orientation and identity issues is the Christian family and church.

theologically conservative Protestant Christian)

practicing homosexuals

Above all other blessings, O God, for ourselves, and our fellow-creatures, we implore Thee to quicken our sense of Thy mercy in the redemption of the world, of the value of that holy religion in which we have been brought up, that we may not, by our own neglect, throw away the salvation Thou hast given us, nor be Christians only in name. Hear us, Almighty God, for His sake who has redeemed us. Amen. —JANE AUSTEN (1775

I am saying that Christians have many resources for listening to God's voice and discerning God's will. But given human limits—even as humans with Jesus in front of us, the Bible open before us, and the Spirit within us—I am rejecting any inerrant path to infallible doctrine.

evangelicalism—at its core, at its immovable power center—never was more than fundamentalism with lipstick on.

Majority Christian opinion on various issues has sometimes shifted profoundly.

This is to affirm that since the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, he is present bodily in the world through his people.

conclusion: evangelicalism was both incoherent and oppressive.

The Nicene Creed

Jesus according to Jesus

There are millions of LGBTQ Christians.

C.S. Lewis and Billy Graham once did.

certainly will be relevant to our witness to the state. But the fundamental need right now for Christians is to think seriously about whether the Church's own marginalized sexual minorities will be treated, unequivocally, as sisters and brothers in Christ.

Followers of Jesus must walk in his footsteps – suffering leads to glory, the cross comes before the crown.

Do you love Jesus? Do you really love him? Then manifest your love for him by feeding and tending those for whom he died. Learn to love people. The

G. K. Chesterton claimed that joy, "which is the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian . . . and the dominant theme of Christian faith. By its creed (i.e., what we believe) joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special (occasional) and small.

In his 1986 autobiographical work, Confessions of a Theologian, Carl F. H. Henry, dean of twentieth-century American evangelical theologians, lamented that several Christian colleges and universities had started to veer away from the centrality of their work, by and large giving up the cognitive focus on Christian thought in favor of Christian piety and activism.

the gospel, the Christian faith, becomes the interpretive framework with which to make sense of all other knowledge and experience.

Wherever the Christian faith has been found, there has been a close association with the written word of God, with books, education, and learning.