Christianity Quotes - Page 17

• Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Reason, Almighty

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• All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

  Karen Armstrong

  Buddhism, Compassion, Keys

  "The way we live now: questions for Karen Armstrong; Talking religious liberties". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 04, 2004.

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• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

  Sam Harris

  Differences, Islam, Doe

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• The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, World, Made

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• One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wind, Abuse, Trying

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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  Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

  Hudson Taylor

  Important, Never Forget, Forget

  J. Hudson Taylor (1914). “Union and Communion”, p.15, CCEL

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• The Lord help me to press after God forever

  David Brainerd

  Forever, Helping, Lord

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.80

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• Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?

  J. C. Ryle

  Fall, Dare

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

  Barack Obama

  Book, Mind Blowing, Greek

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

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• Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

  Charles Spurgeon

  Labels, Too Much, Fables

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• Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

  Eric Metaxas

  Church, Germs, Bonhoeffer

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• We've seen the transformation of America, when at the pinnacle of its Christianity was probably in the 1950s. Ever since then it has been declining, why? Because of the sexual revolution. Where did the sexual revolution come from? The sexual revolution came from the activists of the American gay movement.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, America, Revolution

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• When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  People, Serious

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• The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Civilization, Lasts

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.260, Routledge

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• Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  War, Grief, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2217, Library of Alexandria

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• We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Doe, Looks

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• Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Intellectual

  "Intelligent Design's Contribution To The Debate Over Evolution: A Reply To Henry Morris". billdembski.com. February 01, 2005.

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• The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.

  Rod Rosenbladt

  Mother, Vegetables, Want

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• We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Mandates

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Sight, Devil, Action

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• It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  Bernard Lazare

  Biblical, Critical Analysis, Mind

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• If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

  Rowan Williams

  Country, Art, Years

  "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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