Top 1200 Orthodox Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.

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

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem [Orthodox for God] actually gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States senate, is to be a shomer - to be a or the shomer Yisrael. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body.

It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.

Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that.

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.

...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.