Christianity Quotes - Page 28

It is true that the modern Christian is less robust, but that is not thanks to Christianity; it is thanks to the generations of freethinkers, who from the Renaissance to the present day, have made Christians ashamed of many of their traditional beliefs. It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

Bertrand Russell

Love is the ecstasy of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A mark of true Christianity will be its intellectual vigour and its search for meaning in every aspect of life. True Christianity will always be critical, questioning and continually developing in its understanding of God and of human life. The subject matter for religion is every human experience. In Christian understanding, God is immanent, that is, God is present in all things, and creation itself is a sign, and an effective sign, of God’s presence - a sacrament. That is why there has been such an emphasis on scholarship and learning in the Christian tradition. Faith, as St Anselm wrote, ‘seeks understanding’, for it is the nature of true faith to trust that God is at work in everything and that there is no question which falls outside the scope of religious inquiry. When faith in God weakens, the critical element will also weaken, and there will be more warning against false doctrines than encouragement to develop our understanding. If the critical element is not fostered, Christians will remain infantile in their religious belief and practice, which will have little or no relation to everyday life and behaviour.

Gerard Hughes

The glorious gift of a new year is sacred blessing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Humans are the greatest sacred resources.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The bond of love will unite the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the soul of God

Lailah Gifty Akita

The divinity of thy soul is a spark of divine-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Let us embrace the coming year with a living hope for everyday life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The divinity of thy soul is spark of divine-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is story, until I realized life as sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Awaken the divinity of a sacred self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving of souls in measurable numbers. The local minister was judged either by his charismatic powers or by his ability to prepare his congregation for the preaching of some itinerant ministerial charmer who would really awaken its members. The 'star' system prevailed in religion before it reached the theater. As the evangelical impulse became more widespread and more dominant, the selection and training of ministers was increasingly shaped by the revivalist criterion of ministerial merit. The Puritan ideal of the minister as an intellectual and educational leader was steadily weakened in the face of the evangelical ideal of the minister as a popular crusader and exhorter. Theological education itself became more instrumental. Simple dogmatic formulations were considered sufficient. In considerable measure the churches withdrew from intellectual encounters with the secular world, gave up the idea that religion is a part of the whole life of intellectual experience, and often abandoned the field of rational studies on the assumption that they were the natural province of science alone. By 1853 an outstanding clergyman complained that there was 'an impression, somewhat general, that an intellectual clergyman is deficient in piety, and that an eminently pious minister is deficient in intellect.

Richard Hofstadter

The warrior of the night intercedes for the people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We joyfully pray with grateful heart to welcome blessings in New Year.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We joyfully pray with grateful heart’s to welcome blessings in New Year.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We joyfully pray with grateful hearts, to welcome the sacred-blessings in New Year

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are not for ourselves. We live for the glory of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God is life. Life is divine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is love in every heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We face many trials, beyond our human ability to endure. We learn to depend on only God’s grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the spiritual realms, we can only see the things of the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God continue to rescue us from mortal sufferings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be thankful, joyful and prayerful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You may say we made a mistake placing the birth of Jesus on December 25th. Consider this: in 3 B.C., December 25th was the eighth day of Hanukkah, the day when the greatest gift is given.... Early Christians would not have made up the date, or used a pagan festival date...the date was chosen by people who remembered.

Anonymous

Love is a sacred entity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith gives self-confidence and self-courage and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to know the Lord and fullness of His great grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Peter stands by the gate, And Michael by the throne. 'Peter, I would pass the gate And come before the throne.' 'Whose spirit prayed never at the gate In life nor at the throne, In death he may not pass the gate To come before the throne:' Peter said from the gate; Said Michael from the throne.

Adelaide Crapsey

May the Lord‘s purpose for my life be fulfilled in Jesus name. Amen.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The break of a family is the break of society. We must never break the bond of love and peace that unite us in sacred harmony.

Lailah Gifty Akita

No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character, not when it comes to this great calling of glory through good—bringing glory to God by doing good to others.

Tim Challies

My unchanging resolution is to read the Holy Scriptures every year.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The people come to Jesus, not because they recognized his dignity and function but because it is rumored that a miracle worker has come in their midst. Jesus had come to preach repentance and the nearness of the kingdom but the people think only of relief from pain and affliction.

William L. Lane

Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Why is Jesus’ saying, “I am!” so important? Because, you’re not!

Paul David Washer

Walking in close fellowship with God is a spiritual self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Stop complaining. Be grateful for every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are citizens of heaven. We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

This book is dedicated to the much needed establishing of greater unity in the wider body of Christ. It is dedicated to agreement with the prayer that Jesus prayed:“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:”John 17:20-22 NKJV

Andrew Billings

Arise and shine bright.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Perfect faith casts out all fears.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Many Christians live in a prison created by their own disobedience of Biblical Requirements.

Daryl Baugh

Witchcraft is the attempt to gain special knowledge or power outside God. What do we mean by "special?" We mean power or knowledge that is not found or allowed by God in the natural order.

Thiessen

The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world.

C.S. Lewis

Sometimes that's what prayer is--simply inviting God to join us where we actually are, not because He isn't already here but because inviting Him reminds us it's true.

Emily P. Freeman

The grace of endurance is the great power of God at work within us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the strength of God, you can crush any army

Lailah Gifty Akita

And the centurion who stood by said: Truly this was a son of God. Not long ago but everywhere I go There is a hill and a black windy sky. Portent of hill, sky, day's eclipse I know; Hill, sky, the shuddering darkness, these am I. The dying at His right hand, at His left, I am - the thief redeemed and the lost thief; I am the careless folk; I those bereft, The Well-Belov'd, the women bowed in grief. The gathering Presence that in terror cried, In earth's shock in the Temple's veil rent through, I; and a watcher, ignorant, curious-eyed, I the centurion who heard and knew

Adelaide Crapsey

Reaffirm your love for one another and let grow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Savour on the moment, while still waiting for sacred time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

From a theological point of view, Easter is the center of the Church year; but Christmas is the most profoundly human feast of faith, because it allows us to feel most deeply the humanity of God. The crib has a unique power to show us what it means to say that God wished to be “Immanuel”—a “God with us”, a God whom we may address in intimate language, because he encounters us as a child.

Pope Benedict XVI

That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.

Marilynne Robinson

If I had had this experience earlier in life, I would have been much wiser, much more compassionate. I really didn't understand what it was that made people who came to me so indifferent to good judgement, to common sense, or why they would say "I know, I know" when I urged a little reasonableness on them, and why it meant "It doesn't matter, I just don't care." That's what the saints and the martyrs say. And I know now that it is passion that moves them to their prodigal renunciations. I might seem to be comparing something great and holy with a minor and ordinary thing, that is, love of God with mortal love. But I just don't see them as separate things at all. If we can be divinely fed with a morsel and divinely blessed with a touch, then the terrible pleasure we find in a particular face can certainly instruct us in the nature of the very grandest love. I devoutly believe this to be true. I remember in those days loving God for the existence of love and being grateful to God for the existence of gratitude, right down in the depths of my misery. I realized many things that I am at a loss to express. And of course those feelings become milder with time, which is a mercy.

Marilynne Robinson

Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.

Timothy J. Keller

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?

G.K. Chesterton

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

Okisha Jackson

Wisdom is the knowledge of the gospel truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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