Books Quote by David Friedrich Strauss

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical…

— David Friedrich Strauss

“Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Faith in a written revelation is a real, unfeigned, and so far respectable faith, only where it is believed that all in the sacred…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“The book is intended to help believing Christians “who today have been made insecure by scientific research and critical discussion, so that they may…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“For he also researched the history of Christianity and felt it was based on many earlier fraudulent mistakes made by those bent on perverting…

— Lee Vickers

“For not the revelation of God, but the expounders of that revelation, are responsible for the diversities of Christendom: the fault rests with the…

— G.H. Pember

“This study is written with the conviction that our fundamental need in Western Christianity is to repent of our low and unworthy views of…

— John Snyder

“The inconsistencies of Christian people, who while professing to believe their Bibles were yet content to live just as they would if there were…

— James Hudson Taylor

“There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of…

— John Owen

“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the damnation of…

— Richard Holloway

“The incarnation is the Biblical bulwark against the false spiritualization of Christianity”

— Arnold Albert van Ruler