Christianity Quotes · Page 102

The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

— Mahalia Jackson

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

“It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.”

— Lewis C.S

What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.

— Charles Henry Mackintosh

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

— John Adams

Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel. Consistency in acting in accordance with the Lord’s will is key.

— David A. Bednar

“Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged…

— David Novak

The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and…

— Lynn G. Robbins

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come…

— H. P. Lovecraft

While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God…

— Ion Keith-Falconer

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms…

— Brian Stanley

“When we behold the glory of Christ in the gospel, it reorders the loves of our hearts, so we delight in him…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the…

— Rose Macaulay

Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new…

— Anonymous

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you…

— Voltaire

“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the…

— N.T. Wright

“In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis argues that human beings cannot be truly good or moral without faith in God and without…

— Phil Zuckerman

Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature…

— Philip Yancey

Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals…

— Charles Spurgeon

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

— Karl Barth

“we must proclaim the gospel because history has shown that where the gospel is merely assumed it will slowly be perverted and…

— Bruce Ashford

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.

— Dr Laurence J Peter

There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.

— Spencer W. Kimball

“Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.”

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“A Gospel of contentment is a cheap gospel that teaches Salvation without the cross...”

— Pastor Rod W. Larkins

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Heralds of the gospel have been needed in every generation. This generation is no different.”

— Katy Kauffman

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

— Jimmy Carter

It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

— Mickey Rooney

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

— Shane Claiborne

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

— J. C. Ryle

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

— Banksy