Christianity Quotes · Page 223

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“As a rule, Americans are big on that word “choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature…

— Geoffrey Wood

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these…

— C. S. Lewis

“Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting…

— Anonymous

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and…

— William Sloane Coffin

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming…

— A. N. Wilson

Christianity is an everyday battle against temptations and evil. We are already winners...But we've got to battle until we get our prize.

— Anonymous

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the…

— Harold B. Lee

“God didn’t send his one and only son to earth just to make sure we brush our teeth, say our prayers, and…

— Spencer C Demetros

God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants…

— A. B. Simpson

“Who, among Christians today, is a disciple of Jesus, in any substantive sense of the word “disciple”? A disciple is a learner,…

— Dallas Willard

“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace…

— Ben Witherington III

“This morning I’m bringing three current expressions of this very scenario before your throne of grace. My heart’s heavy, but not as…

— Scotty Smith

“As Christians we face two tasks in our evangelism: saving the soul and saving the mind, that is to say, not only…

— William Lane Craig

Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid…

— Randy Alcorn

“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends…

— Geoffrey Wood

If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and…

— Harry Blamires

The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not…

— Joan D. Chittister

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

— Billy Sunday

“The gospel, as a glass [mirror], should be kept clean and clear in the pulpit,” he wrote, “that the hearers may see…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

“Looking closely at what these young people believe, one discovers that they have evidently never been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ.…

— D.A. Carson

“In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed…

— Scotty Smith

Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated…

— Roger Bacon

“...here is, very simply, what I learned about Jesus and the ladies: he loves us. He loves us. On our own terms.…

— Sarah Bessey

Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“The uneducated Christian waits until he feels the prompting of the Spirit before he takes action. The Word-filled believer takes action based…

— Bill Hull

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to…

— Grover Cleveland

May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation…

— Pope Francis

Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than…

— Kevin DeYoung

Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ…

— Sargent Shriver

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to…

— Cathy Hughes

“The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I think that Christians should have confidence, we have always been part of the mainstream conversation, and if we don't join in…

— Richard Coles

“I’d often thought being a Christian meant by definition being a bad one, since nothing is more difficult than Christianity, so I…

— Charlaine Harris

“Jesus’ personal plan to influence the generation He lived in was not to gather a large crowd once a week, but to…

— Stan O. Gleason

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience,…

— Alija Izetbegovic

“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."…

— Thomas Guthrie

I feel angry with myself the way I handled the Bible and Christianity. A lot more people are more normal with Christianity.…

— Michaela Coel