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title: "7 Christian Christianity Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Christian Christianity quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Christian Christianity sayings and thoughts."
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> [I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-held-evans/i-m-a-christian-because-christianity-names-and-addresses-sin-it/)

[Rachel Held Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-held-evans/)

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> [“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-bavinck/christ-is-not-the-founder-of-christianity-nor-the-first-confessor-of/)

[Herman Bavinck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-bavinck/)

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> [This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-hodge/this-whole-process-of-education-is-to-be-religious-and-not-only/)

[Charles Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-hodge/)

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> [Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/anyone-who-is-honestly-trying-to-be-a-christian-will-soon-find-his/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [“The fact that it was the “Christian church” which chose to do the evils you write about, and to do them using…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-a-boyd/the-fact-that-it-was-the-christian-church-which-chose-to-do-the-evils/)

[Gregory A. Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-a-boyd/)

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> [Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-hauerwas/christianity-is-not-a-set-of-beliefs-or-doctrines-one-believes-in/)

[Stanley Hauerwas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-hauerwas/)

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> [One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/one-of-the-reasons-why-it-needs-no-special-education-to-be-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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