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I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.
Author:
Oleksandr Zhuravliov
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Christianity is part of the common law.
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James Wilson
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Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
Author:
George Whitefield
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
Author:
Gerald Vann
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
Author:
D. Trueblood
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
Author:
Randall Terry
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Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.
Author:
Charles Templeton
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For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.
Author:
Michael Taylor
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
Author:
John Strachan
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
Author:
Patti Smith
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Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
Author:
Bruce Shelley
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It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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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.
Author:
Jack Schwartz
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
Author:
Francis Schaeffer
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Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.
Author:
Steven Runciman
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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
Author:
Bridget Riley
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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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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.
Author:
Anne Rice
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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.
Author:
Herbert Read
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Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
Author:
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
Author:
Timothy Radcliffe
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Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
Author:
Timothy Radcliffe
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To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
Author:
Timothy Radcliffe
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The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
Author:
Timothy Radcliffe
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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
Author:
William Penn
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And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.
Author:
Mike Pence
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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.
Author:
Norman Peale
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Author:
Walter Pater
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Author:
Ouida
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Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
Author:
Carl Olson
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Author:
Novalis
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Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
Author:
Michael Novak
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Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
Author:
Michael Novak
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The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
Author:
Michael Novak
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Author:
Lucretia Mott
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To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
Author:
Alan Moore
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The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.
Author:
Sun Moon
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Author:
H. Mencken
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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
Author:
John McGahern
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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
Author:
Josh McDowell
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After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
Author:
Josh McDowell
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Author:
Jacques Maritain
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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
Author:
John Machen
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I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
Author:
Joseph Lister
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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.
Author:
C. Lewis
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Author:
C. Lewis
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I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Author:
John Lennon
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
Author:
John Lennon
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We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Author:
John Lennon
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Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
Author:
Ted Lange
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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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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.
Author:
David Kirk
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To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Author:
Richard King
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It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
Author:
Aly Khan
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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.
Author:
Aly Khan
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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
Author:
Bruce Kent
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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.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
Author:
Richard Johnson
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Author:
Peter Jennings
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
Author:
Harriet Jacobs
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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.
Author:
Jermaine Jackson
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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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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.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
Author:
William Inge
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.
Author:
Charles Houston
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Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
Author:
Mark Hopkins
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No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.
Author:
Frederick Hedge
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
Author:
David Hare
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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Author:
Matthew Hale
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My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
Author:
Lee Greenwood
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In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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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.
Author:
Barry Goldwater
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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.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.
Author:
Shusaku Endo
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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.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
Author:
Mary Eddy
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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Author:
Mary Douglas
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It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.
Author:
Christopher Dawson
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Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
Author:
John Darby
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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.
Author:
Billy Cyrus
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Author:
Ralph Cram
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Author:
Ralph Cram
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
Author:
Billy Connolly
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.
Author:
Stuart Chase
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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.
Author:
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
Author:
George Carey
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Author:
John Burroughs
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
Author:
T-Bone Burnett
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
Author:
Olympia Brown
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Author:
Phillips Brooks
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But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Author:
Georg Brandes
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National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.
Author:
Martin Bormann
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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Author:
Frank Borman
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I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Author:
William Blake
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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.
Author:
Bruno Bauer
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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
Author:
Bruno Bauer
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Author:
Jan Balkenende
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What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.
Author:
Stephen Baldwin
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
Author:
Irving Babbitt
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
Author:
Karen Armstrong
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With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
Author:
Francis Arinze
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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.
Author:
Moustapha Akkad
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
Author:
John Adams
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I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.
Author:
Willie Aames
