Christianity Quote by Alexander Schmemann Download Open image “In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.” — Alexander Schmemann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christianity Process Religion
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. But Christian clergymen are well aware that if they were to attempt to… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share
Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity!… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue. — Elaine Pagels 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 other or,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“On one side it seems there is faith in a Creator-God - and at the same time, the rejection of his creation; and on… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There” — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“In the Orthodox ecclesial experience and tradition a sacrament is understood primarily as a revelation of the genuine nature of creation, of the world,… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The additional problem with all these proofs [of the immortality of the soul] is that in their attempt to affirm the existence of another… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“To live in the world as if there were no God ! "-but hon esty to the Gospel, to the whole Christian tradition, to… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“This world rejected Christ, refused to see in Him its own life and fulfillment. And since it has no other life but Christ, by… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth,… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess… — Alexander Schmemann 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… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
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