Christianity Quotes - Page 18

• Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

  George Muller

  Reality, Holy, Form

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Vol. 2, part 4". Book by George Müller, 1855.

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• During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

  Lionel Blue

  War, Home, School

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• Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

  Lionel Blue

  People, Devil, Good Christian

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

  Sandra Bullock

  Football, Republican, Knows

  "Sandra Bullock: 'Why I hate romantic comedies'". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2010.

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• We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Islamic, Democracy

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• I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Wall

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Ideas

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• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, War, Cities

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  Rachel Cusk

  Century

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• 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.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Son, Thinking, Opposites

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• It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Circles, Dancing

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• In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

  Havelock Ellis

  Romantic, Sex, Exercise

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.34, Elsevier

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• You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Sweet, Jesus

  "Casual, chatty pope puts Vatican on alert with off-the-cuff homilies, interviews, one-liners" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Agency, Cynical, Religion

  Richard Le Gallienne (1895). “The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)”

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• I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  Barry Goldwater

  Political, Politics, Today

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• Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Joy, Forgiven

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• I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

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• There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

  Nhat Hanh

  Believe, Levels, Should

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

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• The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

  Augustus Hare

  Paganism, Good Christian, Virtue

  "Guesses at Truth" by Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, London: Macmillan, (p. 1), 1867.

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• There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

  Sam Harris

  Buddhism, Thinking, Trying

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• That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Psychology, Impossible

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

  Peter Jennings

  Years, Empires, Execution

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• Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Miracle, Islam, Judaism

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• I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Dear Lord, People

  "'Like a puppy in a Christmas stocking'". Interview With Susan Olasky, world.wng.org. September 20, 2003.

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• I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

  Anne Lamott

  Down And, Enthusiasm, Quiet

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