“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
It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact,… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon… — Charles Clayton Morrison Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself… — James Baldwin 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
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky 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
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
A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The catch is that for most people the New Testament is taken as proof for the conventional picture of Christian origins, and… — Burton L. Mack Copy Share Image
“The fact that it was the “Christian church” which chose to do the evils you write about, and to do them using… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“While we must continue to align ourselves in denominations that share our theological distinctives, at the local level our bias should be… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“city builders and rebuilders (Jerusalem) and city-loving exiles (Babylon). In New Testament times, the people of God become city missionaries (indeed, New… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Of course, there were innumerable conversions during these years, as Christianity became the religion of Western Europe and Christendom took its characteristic… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“Peter is a very interesting guy. He is one of Jesus’ favorite people and a trusted friend. He saw most of Jesus’… — Matt Carter Copy Share Image
“I'm a spiritual person, she said. "I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“Look at it this way: Jesus is Jewish. The disciples were all Jews. The apostles were all Jews. All the people saved… — Zola Levitt 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
I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the… — Orson Pratt 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
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
“Now, a plain word here about the Christian church trying to carry on in its own power: That kind of Christianity makes… — A. W. Tozer Copy Share Image
It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my… — C. S. Lewis 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
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has… — A.C. Grayling 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
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