Bad example Quote by Mark Driscoll

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just…

— Ravi Zacharias

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have…

— Victor J. Stenger

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Any attempt to reduce the Bible to a guidebook for how to live is not only wrong, it's also idolatrous. It replaces Christ at…

— Jeffrey Hemmer

“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).”

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis…

— Richard Dawkins

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

— Bertrand Russell

“Christian ethical decisions should be based upon personal honor, interpersonal relationships with others including non-Christians, and moral implications of the decisions. Anything less than…

— Scott S. Haraburda

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

— Henry Cloud

“If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn’t both be able to…

— David Silverman

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

— John Shelby Spong

I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious.…

— John Shelby Spong