Christianity Quotes - Page 19

• The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Easter, Jesus, Crucifixion Of Christ

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• My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

  Max Lucado

  Boys, Encounters, Way

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• For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

  Josh McDowell

  World, Philosopher, Good Christian

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• The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

  Jon Meacham

  Hate, Giving, Inward

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• The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

  Jon Meacham

  Fighting, Support, Intellectual

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• 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.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you're a Christian you've got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It's no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that's going to go, 'Yeah, give me some of that?'

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Attitude, Mean

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• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Fighting, Mind Blowing

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

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• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  Barack Obama

  War, America, Mind Blowing

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Frustration, Gun

  "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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• I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.

  Conor Oberst

  Beautiful, Believe, Ideas

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• The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Wise, Simple

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• And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

  Mike Pence

  People, Way, Firsts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Essence, Life And Death

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• We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

  Herbert Read

  Civilization, Literature, May

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• I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

  Anne Rice

  Angel, Saint, Literature

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• I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

  J. K. Rowling

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• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  Salman Rushdie

  Christian, Ideas, Might

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.com. August/September 2005.

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• The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Views, Essentials, Literature

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• I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.

  Will Self

  Writing, Islam, Trying

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• I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

  Wesley Snipes

  Buddhism, Islam, Different

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• The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

  John Shelby Spong

  Roles, Way, Persons

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• Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Effort, Selfishness

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Shoes, Evil

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

  Billy Sunday

  Home, Hypocrite, Mirrors

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