Top 1200 Orthodox Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

General Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Mother Teresa was part of a conspiracy to convert Hindus to Christianity.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.

We're going to protect Christianity. We don't have to be politically correct about it.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

In Christianity, nobody wins until everybody crosses the line.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.

My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.

Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

As an Orthodox Jew I must acknowledge that a society can only be successful if it adheres to God's basic plan. By recognizing that a battle is raging and that, right now, Christian conservatives are leading the side I believe is morally, historically, and intellectually correct, I find myself linking arms with those so many of my coreligionists vilify.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.