Century Quote by Kenneth Scott Latourette Download Open image “In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.” — Kenneth Scott Latourette ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Christ Faith Religion Spread Thirds
Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share
“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical science could… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
“...the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not as abundantly… — Craig Keener Copy Share Image
“well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago” — Jon M. Sweeney Copy Share Image
What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What brought this… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians. — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They… — Kenneth Scott Latourette 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
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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