Top 1200 Orthodox Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost... There is no Authority civil or religious: there can be no legitimate Government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All, without it is Rebellion and Perdition, or in more orthodox words Damnation.

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

[Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on its own.Two hours where we spoke as brothers, sincerely and no one knows what was spoke about, only what we said at the end publicly about how we felt as we spoke.

Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai... Other forms of Judaism dispute this claim, although it does explain certain passages in the first Torah, such as, I'm sorry, am I boring you? and What do you like better, Moses, Lord Almighty or Big Hoohah?

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.