Top 1200 Buddhism And Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.'

I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

That there's no link between Islam and Christianity and Judaism. There wouldn't be Islam if there wasn't Christianity or Judaism, because it's all one long line of revelation. Seeing it from that point of view it makes you ask yourself why Muslims sometimes separate themselves from that large family that leads to Abraham and, even before that, to Adam. The only answer is that we're conditioned to do it by thinking, Hey, I do things better than he does.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

A lot of times, people get Christianity and religion messed up, because your faith should be something personal in a relationship and it's not to judge others or say, 'Christianity is something you welcome others into.' It should be a place where people feel safe and welcomed... and not to feel judged or shamed.

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.

In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.

You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living up to them. Similarly, not all liberals are living up to the tenets of liberalism.

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

Most people think that Christianity is spelled DO: they look at the Bible or the life of Christ, and they simply try hard to live like Jesus. Christianity is really spelled DONE: it is what Christ has done that enables us to live a life of obedience.30

The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.

Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.

I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.

If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegience. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it's not for you.

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.