Top 1200 True Christianity Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

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

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.

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

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

Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

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

True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine.

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

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

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

I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

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

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.

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

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.

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

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

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

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

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

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

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

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

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

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

I had dreamt of playing for Arsenal and Real Madrid, and those dreams came true. Maybe I can dream of winning the Ballon d'Or, and that can come true as well.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

True beauty lies in true education.

There can be no true friends without true enemies

Me, the bard out of work, the Lord has applied to His service. In the very beginning, He gave me the order to sing His praises night and day. The Master summoned the minstrel to His True Court. He clothed me with the robe of His true honour and eulogy. Since then, the True Name had become my ambrosial food.

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

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

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.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

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

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

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.

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.

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

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

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

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

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