Christianity Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel…

— Martin Luther

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

— Karl Barth

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen…

— Brennan Manning

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it…

— Denis Diderot

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that…

— Karen Armstrong

I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of…

— John Shelby Spong