Top 1200 Orthodox Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.

The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.

I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.

I can explode from both stances as a fighter. I can get up into my southpaw, give one good jab, sprawl, then get up into my orthodox, sprawl, go into southpaw and jab.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Chase God's heart today. Christianity has got to be more than a label, a lingo, and a lifestyle.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

It seems like -- especially in religious circles and Christian circles, we want to first talk about the things we're opposed to. That means we have to categorize that person. We can call them emergent or neo orthodox or someone who feminizes scripture. There's the category, let's stick them in the category then just blow up the box and him along with it.

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

My concern is that somebody would make a decision against Christianity because of Mr. Trump's behavior.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.

It's an oversimplication to say that more monks and nuns are the answer to the Joel Osteen-ification of Christianity... but it wouldn't hurt.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

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

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.