“For Christians, prayer is like breathing. You don’t have to think to breathe because the atmosphere exerts pressure on your lungs and… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians,… — Pat Robertson 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
Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Who is this Servant? The Christian church has since its very beginning understood this to be Jesus Christ himself (Acts 8:32–33) and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
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What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Jesus died for our sins” has been understood. Among some Christians, it is seen as an essential doctrinal element in the Christian… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
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“I don't believe in the god of the Christians who gave his son in order to save mankind. That's a myth. But… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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“This is for you, all the women of the world Those who lived, all who ever will this is for your love,… — Trevor McShane Copy Share Image
I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is an unsearchableness in this mystery of the Godhead, in the mystery of God becoming Man; in the mystery of the… — James Durham Copy Share Image
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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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“One of them, the wide clear current of Christianity, has provided the smooth underlying stream of history for nineteen hundred years, and… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
Anyone attempting to live a Christian lifestyle will always be pressed towards settling for "nominal Christianity." For the believer who lives in… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
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“When outsiders claim that we are unchristian, it is a reflection of this jumbled (and predominately negative) set of perceptions. When they… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“We do not have even 1 percent of that kind of power. Rather, we have 100 percent of the natural freedom that… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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