Top 1200 True Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

Because 'The Boy With The Topknot' is a true story there are so many specific details that are true, current, accurate and haven't been made up.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

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

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.

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

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

At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

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

I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

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

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

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

I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

Being true to one's duty is a mark of true disciples of the Lord and the children of God. Be valiant in your duty. Stay in step. Do not fail in your most important task, that of keeping your second estate. Be true to your duty, for it will bring you to God.

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.

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

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

What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.

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

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

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

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

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

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

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

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