A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“After half a millennium of dominance, the West is being eclipsed in the global era, the United States as the lead society… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The spreading of the Gospel, regardless of the motives or the integrity or the heroism of some of the missionaries, was an… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons, a fierce opponent of the Gnostics, attacked them for their spiritual and literary creativity, accusing them of producing… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out! — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
“The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“allegorical interpretation. This was one of the most influential approaches to biblical interpretation until the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The roots… — Nathan P. Feldmeth Copy Share Image
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
