Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
“In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected… — United States House Judiciary Committee of Congress 1854 Copy Share Image
We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today’s world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
“And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to… — John Mott Copy Share Image
“If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; We must have sight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, -… — Marco Polo Copy Share Image
“Change was happening and coming quick. You could feel it, itching at you as you waited desperate for movement. You had been… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“It is true, of course, that what is an unspeakable gift of God for the lonely individual is easily disregarded and trodden… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“One day I said to them, Where is the God you worship? They said he was like Chukwu, that he was in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“In my old easy-going theism, I had regarded Christianity as a sort of fairy tale; and I had neither accepted nor rejected… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, some Christians don't look much different from non-Christian coworkers. They talk the same, have the same work habits, compromise on the… — William Carr Peel Copy Share Image
Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christs words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread. The gospel alone… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it,… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century,… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
“Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write "X-Mas" instead of "Christmas"; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas.… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it is from this… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
“So we do not read the Bible simply to fill our minds, but to change our hearts. We do not read the… — Tim Chester Steve Timmis Copy Share Image
“The gospel is more radical, more countercultural, more confronting than anything the Bible has to say about men and women, or wealth,… — Claire Smith Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I made it clear that I will consider - this is the important phrase I am trying to say - myself most… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
“Regarding Christians who feel they have a free pass on being criticized; When the blind worship of an invisible being and the… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“A carpenter witnessed to me about Christ. He died knowing he had brought only my wife and me to faith, but we… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
