Quotes about Christianity
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.
— Tullian Tchividjian
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
— Stanley Hauerwas
For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
— George Whitefield
I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'
— Tim Tebow
There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
— Tertullian
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
— Joyce Meyer
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
— Philip Yancey
The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.
— Cormac McCarthy
Supposedly if you could think of nothing good to say about a dullard you would say that he was a good Christian. Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.
— Cormac McCarthy
I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today's world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and blasting away at the non-Christian world for not adhering to Christian morality. Yet how can we expect non-Christians to pursue Christian morality when they do not have God's Spirit within them, the Spirit who alone makes such obedience possible?
— Craig Blomberg