Christianity Quote by Philip Jenkins Download Open image ““In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.”” — Philip Jenkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christianity History Theology Thousand years
“settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For I have learned that bitterness is the only way I can allow you to destroy the beautiful work that God has done in… — Tom Kizzia Copy Share Image
“See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“For the first time in two thousand plus years, time stands still. I pray it stays that way, because this moment here? Divine.” — Heather Lyons Copy Share Image
“Times change, but truth persists. When we fail to profit from the experiences of the past, we are doomed to repeat them with all… — Thomas S Monson Copy Share Image
“well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago” — Jon M. Sweeney Copy Share Image
“If i live on longer, shall i again, i wonder, yearn for these days ? The world that i once saw as bitter, now,… — pictures of the heart Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Copy Share Image
“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of getting on… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christianity offers similar stories, and the global Christianity that perished in the late Middle Ages has revived in the past century. China offers an… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Where the African church failed was in not carrying Christianity beyond the Romanized inhabitants of the cities and the great estates, and not sinking… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christians believe that God speaks through history; and only by knowing that history can we hope to interpret momentous events like the Japanese persecutions… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps theological attempts to explain the destruction of churches or of “Christian nations” are asking the wrong question, if they judge success and failure… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Another difficulty with the reservation scheme was that it reinforced the popular association of Christianity with foreign imperialism, and thus with enmity to the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Far from anti-Christian purges ceasing with the official end of war in 1918, they actually intensified during the ensuing war between Greece and Turkey.… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Middle Eastern Christians, in short, tried every possible tactic to survive and flourish, and their efforts have largely failed. Partly, this is a matter… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Besides the missionary theology cultivated by many churches, we also need a theology of extinction.” — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Our accepted chronology of the ancient church is wrong: ancient Semitic Christianity dies out not in the fourth century, but in the fourteenth.8” — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christianity in this region remained as much a colonists’ religion as it would be once again during the French Empire of the twentieth century,… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar suggests, what… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson 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
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the KKK, I would have a little… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring 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
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland 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
The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out… — Rachel Campos-Duffy 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
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
