“It is startling to reflect on just how diminished the average modern Western Christian vision of “hope,” of “inheritance,” or indeed of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the Old World on the eve of Columbus’s departure in 1492. For almost half a millennium Christians had been… — David E. Stannard Copy Share Image
“Many of us who have found ourselves to be useful in Christian service have found ourselves unable, if we’re honest, to connect… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of… — August Tholuck Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We ought to preach the gospel, not as our views at all, but as the mind of God--the testimony of Jehovah concerning… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“The shape this book has taken reflects my belief that there is need to blow the whistle on the sidelining of personal… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“From Adam to the present, the whole history of the world has been one recurring instance of personal and group apostasy after… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
“I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was also able to see that the principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It's important, though, that there are not "four gospels." There is only one gospel: the good news of what God has done… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the first chapter of his wonderful book Life Together, has a discussion of how Christians never meet one-on-one; they… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both… — Rudolf Karl Bultmann Copy Share Image
The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity within contemporary Islam, unfortunately, is something that we are not totally cognizant of, or… — Steven Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes,… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of… — Katherine Stewart Copy Share Image
“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us… — Albert M. Wolters Copy Share Image
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Glorious Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—I praise you for the incalculable riches of redemption you’ve lavished on us in the gospel.… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
“The otherworldliness of the Christian life ought, Luther concluded, to be manifested in the very midst of the world, in the Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
