Christianity Quotes

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.