Christianity Quote by Alan Kreider Download Open image ““As Tertullian put it around AD 200, “Christians are made, not born.” 4”” — Alan Kreider ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christianity
“More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.” — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“Upon his authority he gives the world the right to judge whether you and I are born-again Christians on the basis of our observable… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who thinks that he can live the Christian life himself is proclaiming that he is not a Christian.” — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“A born-again Christian is a pervert who has had his instincts warped, his mind unhinged, and his total outlook on life, outlook on sex… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
“Christians must begin with the affirmation that all human beings are equally created in the image of God.” — R. Albert Mohler Jr Copy Share Image
“I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“people today know a lot more about how to become a Christian than about how to be one.” — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
“Christians are meant to be God’s holy counterculture, showing the world what a society of love can look like. It is about political imagination… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“This, the Christians believed, was God’s work and not theirs. So they did not engage in frantic action to save those who were not… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“An unmixed marriage, Christian with Christian—this according to Tertullian enabled believers to live life in its fullness. This is not what we expect from the ascetic Tertullian, who said harsh things about marriage. 66 But here it is—Tertullian celebrating the knitting together of “two who are one,” who together serve the same Master. Nothing divides them. And together they are… — Alan Kreider Copy Share
“At the heart of early Christian worship was table fellowship. Throughout the first three centuries Christian communities gathered once a week for a meal. Across time these communities moved from an early model, which Tertullian called “our small feasts,” to a later model, which Origen called a “great feast.” 3 I call these models the “evening banquet” and the “morning… — Alan Kreider Copy Share
“Does my subjectivity shape the book? Of course it does, and that dynamic can be bad or good, or both! For example, in reading the early Christian writers closely I have been astonished to discover the widespread presence of the theme of peace in the life and mission of the church. And I have asked myself: Why have others not… — Alan Kreider Copy Share
“According to Tertullian, impatient actions do not produce what they promise. Instead, impatient actions make things worse, bringing about massive misfortunes. “Now, nothing undertaken through impatience can be transacted without violence, and everything done with violence has either met with no success or has collapsed or has plunged to its own destruction.” 57 Patience, on the other hand, brings new… — Alan Kreider Copy Share
“The Christians’ focus was not on “saving” people or recruiting them; it was on living faithfully—in the belief that when people’s lives are rehabituated… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“When people seek to follow Christ, according to Origen, God forms them into people who embody this patience. Christ’s followers are not in a hurry; they listen carefully when the word is read and preached, and they patiently call to account straying Christians who attend worship services irregularly. 27 Patient believers trust God. When they are subjected to penitential discipline,… — Alan Kreider Copy Share
“Origen was most articulate about this struggle. “For you who are redeemed by Christ,” he challenged believers in Caesarea, “a physical sword has been removed from your hands.” But this did not mean they were powerless. “In its place the ‘sword of the Spirit’ has been given and you must seize it.” 131 Christians fight by means of “prayers and… — Alan Kreider Copy Share
“So, in our imaginative scenario, Constantine the Christian decided to adopt a policy of mission true to the early Christians’ tradition of patience: Regarding paganism: Constantine would abolish state subsidies for pagan temples and sacrifice. But he would not abolish sacrifice (let the aristocrats pay for it if they want to) or plunder the temples. The many forms of paganism… — Alan Kreider Copy Share
“We can hear the catechist intoning precept 26: “That it is of small account to be baptized and to receive the eucharist unless you… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“In all their activities Christians are “filled with joy uttering and doing the precepts of the Lord,” teaching their children never to lose hold… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“the church’s growth; it is life in “the way of Christ,” distinctive and hopeful. Christians, as Cyprian knew well, were growing in numbers because… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the KKK, I would have a little… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
