Christianity Quote by Diana Butler Bass

“Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us. Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer…

— David Platt

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the…

— Shane Claiborne

“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its…

— Herman Bavinck

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

People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We don't know…

— Wendell Berry

“Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see…

— Richard J. Foster

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

— Pope Francis

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

— Bear Grylls

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I…

— Max Lucado

I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where…

— Philip Yancey

“Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it…

— Kay Bruner