Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a…

Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I…

— George Weigel

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's…

— James Stewart

Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of…

— Ouida

“For all these reasons, one cannot recount the history of modern science without acknowledging the crucial importance of Christianity. But this does not mean…

— Ronald L. Numbers

“After a few generations of warfare, though, the fanatics were either killed along with their backups, or were persuaded to modify their positions.  Most…

— Walter Jon Williams

“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist…

— Alister E. McGrath

I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from…

— Archibald Alexander Hodge

The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those…

— Isaac Newton

If Christians continue to rely on emotion and ignore evidence, they will continue to lose their children to secularism. As Ravi Zacharias points out,…

— Frank Turek

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do…

— Steven Weinberg

In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society.…

— Francis Schaeffer

Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really needed in…

— Brent Yaciw

“A time of ongoing cultural revolution when the adversaries of Christianity have made plain their intent to use the state machinery to promote radical…

— Thomas Woods Jr

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson