Christian Quote by Laurens van der Post Download Open image “Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.” — Laurens van der Post ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian Christianity Organized Organized religion Political Politics Religion
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. — Michel De Certeau Copy Share Image
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position” — Tim Keller Copy Share Image
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy, — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
“We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins 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
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous 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
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg 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
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales 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
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside 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
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image