“Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did… — Margaret Craven Copy Share Image
“Theologians are to look to the _beyond_-community–– _beyond_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, Muslims and Christians have shared this understanding. Each believes in truth, not the least because they believe their faith is true.… — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
“There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
When the federal government announces indictments, weather it's a terrorism indictment or something else, it's almost like it's taken like gospel. My… — Ethan Brown Copy Share Image
“To put it plainly, women enjoyed higher status and more autonomy among Christians than among pagans, and could expect better treatment from… — Vincent Carroll Copy Share Image
“Pure in heart means to be sing-hearted... to will one thing- God. All (Jesus)'s moments flowed from His single-heartedness, from His intimacy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Christian theology, however, never is and never can be anything more than the thoughts that Christians have (alone or with others) after… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The irrefutable fact is that Christianity gave birth to modern science. The scientific revolution began with the Protestant Reformation and the Bible… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“I want us all to have real clarity about the principles of the gospel that unite us. I want us to understand… — Chieko N. Okazaki Copy Share Image
We are called to love others. We share the gospel because we love people. And we don't share the gospel because we… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Flannery O’Connor’s writing is quite dark, but it is so because she believes in the Devil, and in the Fall, and in… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“The gospel, however, says that those who do not forget the past are condemned to repeat it. By looking to the Lord… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
“There is today no lack of Bible teachers to set forth correctly the principles of the doctrines of Christ, but too many… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today,… — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“You see, like many who grew up in church, I once assumed the gospel was simply what non-Christians must believe in order… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“When we lift our inward eyes to gaze upon God we are sure to meet friendly eyes gazing back at us, for… — Tozer, A. W Copy Share Image
“In fact, it is known from tales brought back by missionaries that the Japanese version of The Sinner's Guide was one of… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
“One of the early critics of Christianity was Celsus (fl. 180), the witty philosopher who observed that Christianity was a "degraded kind… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image