Top 1200 Orthodox Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They would not allow other composers to write the music they wanted to write, and only a certain kind of music could be played.

When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.

Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an orthodox Mormon woman like my mother. I am an unorthodox Mormon woman with a fierce and hungry faith.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.