Christianity Quotes

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us.

Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.

One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

Go, send, or disobey.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.