Quotes About Christianity

To believe ourselves worthless is a terrible and unchristian thing; and not to care that we are worthless is perhaps more woeful still.

There is nothing peculiarly Christian about moods of exaltation and triumph, or passing feelings of one sort or another; these kinds of changes happen just about every time one goes to a movie (156).

Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).

The idea that the early Christian tradition was limited to its Greek and Latin expressions is still widespread. This assumption distorts historical reality and weakens greatly our understanding of the roots of Christian theology and spirituality. In the third and fourth centuries Syriac was the third international language of the church. It served as the major means of communication in the Roman diocese of the East, which included Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.

The ideal of toleration sounds like a formal condition allowing all flowers to bloom, but it turns out on examination to adumbrate a determinate form of life no less intrusive than the Sharia or "fundamentalist" Christianity.

Daily Bible reading has always been a deep help for daily spiritual growth. But millions of Christians got bogged down and give up by the time they read Leviticus! However, reading 15 minutes a day from The One Year Bible gives you the entire Bible in a year of daily variety, interest, and growth in God.

Christians have long realized that the whispered name Jesus can bring comfort and cheer to someone suffering or bereaved, and it can bring joyful hope to the fearful or depressed heart.

The heart of the Christian gospel is a person, not a church or a system of doctrinal interpretation.

If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor hot, he can be certain that he does not have faith. If anyone thinks he is Christian and yet is indifferent towards his being a Christian, then he really is not one at all. What would we think of a man who affirmed that he was in love and also that it was a matter of indifference to him?

What all ethical theories critically lack, Christianity uniquely offers: the perfect, ethical example. Christians are not restricted solely to abstract principles for ethical conduct, because in Jesus we have a model for good living.

The person who calls himself a Christian, who says he loves God, yet does not seek his company and delight in it, can't be a true lover of God.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.

I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

There are only two kinds of religion in the world...They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.