A Quote by Rick Warren

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

Rick Warren

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Christian Contradiction Serving Terms

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Rick Warren
American - Writer
Born: January 28, 1954

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

William Barclay

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

Zygmunt Bauman

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Aldous Huxley

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

Timothy Keller

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Pope Pius XI

Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Pope Pius XI

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

J. I. Packer

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free.

George C. Wolfe

The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

Richard Baxter

There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems social, political, cultural to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith, the view which sees all things here below in terms of God's supremacy and earth's transitoriness, in terms of Heaven and Hell.