Built Quote by Shane Claiborne

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church…

— Shane Claiborne

“We are all caught up, entangled, in the lumbering day-to-day operations of a [social] machinery, working in many respects in the service of ends…

— Harry Blamires

Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.

— Mother Teresa

“Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.”

— David Kinnaman

Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.”

— Frank Viola

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

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable…

— Josh McDowell

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going…

— George Bernard Shaw

The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.

— Theo van Doesburg

Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just…

— Robert B. Seidensticker

We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians…

— Martin Luther