“Established religion is like established anything else. It's easy. It offers answers you can get prepackaged and predigested, right off the shelf,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved… — Marvin Perry Copy Share Image
“It is a shame when a Christian gives an unqualified approval to the positive messages in The 40-Year-Old Virgin or Little Miss… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top. — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism, Atheism, secularism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam or any other counter belief to Christianity is not the greatest threat facing Christianity in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God for every state other than unbelief and misguidance.” — Master Nursi Copy Share Image
Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
“The range of different situations in these seven churches is sufficient for any Christian church in the late first century to find… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“So long as you are in God's hands, He will not throw you away. God cannot drop you for you to be… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“My Christian faith has always put a central role of my life and it’s supplies answers to those questions: “who do you… — Vinh Chung Copy Share Image
Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Certainly–and we can all agree on this, whether we are atheists, theists, panentheists–the future is doing the calling. The unborn children, our… — Adam Bucko Copy Share Image
“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'm always running into the Sunday God of churchgoing Christians and cannot help noticing that he doesn't help out much on weekdays.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world. — David Kim Copy Share Image
“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“As a result of these broad trends, contemporary Christian ethicists appear in public as figures struggling with the paradoxical task of articulating… — Kelly M. Kapic Copy Share Image
“the Bible’s solution to a bad marriage is a reorientation to the radical, spousal love of Christ communicated in the gospel. “You… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“again…History shows that revival begins with the Christians being brought to their knees. It is a flood of deep conviction, purging and… — Andrew Strom Copy Share Image
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