Bible Quote by Stephen Return Riggs

“All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our…

— Karla Perry

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or explicit than are those forbidding Christians to conform…

— Ellen G. White

“Savages measure religion by the harvest of converts, the civilized find holiness in helping beyond religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker

“It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we read the…

— John Piper

“The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.”

— Harry Blamires

“What a sublime picture was this! A ruler of a mighty nation going to the pages of the Bible with simple Christian earnestness for…

— Elizabeth Keckley

If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which…

— John H. Walton

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed…

— Alice Walker

“It is true that the Christian West used its technological superiority to colonize much of the world, and that technology has created serious dangers…

— Vishal Mangalwadi