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- Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
- If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
- The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.
- Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
- A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically…
- Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are…
- Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
- Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
- At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The…
- If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a…
- To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there…
- Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but…
- You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
- In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such…
- The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus…
- It is not accurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then, what matures Christians is trying hard to live according to biblical…
- The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
- A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.
- Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
- The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the…
- If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.
- The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
- I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture…
- In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play…
- Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there.…
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- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar