Christianity Quotes - Page 38

• Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Today, Dead Man

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• We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.

  Mother Teresa

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

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• I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.

  Saul Alinsky

  Religious, Political, Independence

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• Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Reason

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great About Christianity”, p.240, Regnery Publishing

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• Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Civilization, Roots, Foundation

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Finals, Life Is, Judgment

  "What's So Great About Christianity" by Dinesh D'Souza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2007.

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• Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Drama, Play, Events

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great About Christianity”, p.300, Regnery Publishing

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• For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  People, Intellectual, Benefits

  "What's So Great About Christianity" by Dinesh D'Souza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2007.

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• Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  People, Church, Dollars

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• I'm not trying to convert the Jewish people to the Christian faith... In fact, trying to convert Jews is a waste of time. Jews already have a covenant with God and that has never been replaced by Christianity.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Covenant With God, People

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• The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

  John Hagee

  Children, Book, Home

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• If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

  John Hagee

  Doe, Would Be, Needs

  John Hagee (2013). “Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change”, p.12, Worthy Publishing

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• Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Teaching, Men, Imagination

  "Lectures on the Essence of Religion". "Atheism alone a Positive View", en.wikiquote.org. 1851.

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• What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

  Brad Thor

  Writing, Thinking, Islam

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• There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.

  Clement Attlee

  Thinking, Race, Idols

  Clement Richard Attlee (1940). “War comes to Britain: speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. R. Atlee, M.P.”

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• 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.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Play, Names, America

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• Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Monastic Life, Protest

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• With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Past, Two

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• I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

  Joseph Lister

  Doctrine, Fundamentals, Good Christian

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• To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rainbow, Greek, Privacy

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Lying, Hero, Humility

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• I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jesus, Jobs, Doe

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Political, Understanding, Church

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.533, Duke University Press

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• My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

  Mortimer Adler

  Philosophy, Mystery, Reason

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• In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salivations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it, I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity but I'll get here a little later, I'll move up to that. It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

  Michael Savage

  Moving, Thinking, People

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