Christianity Quote by Richard Coles

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

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

Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace"…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the scene of…

— John Henry Newman

“What Christians see, or claim to see, in Genesis 1-3 changed as the church itself changed from a dissident Jewish sect to a popular…

— Elaine Pagels

“Ponder a curious fact about the witness of the early Christians in light of our tendency to focus on electoral politics as the weapon…

— Richard Beck

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

— Philip Yancey

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines…

— Shane Claiborne

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from…

— Robert Rainy

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity…

— Peter Kreeft

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their…

— Antonin Scalia