Top 1200 Orthodox Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!

Has the pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers, of any other private citizen?

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Lack of world vision in any Christian produces a 'pea-sized Christianity'.

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned.

I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology.

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

Seek each day to do or say something to further Christianity among the heathen.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.