Quotes of: Christian-ethic Keyword

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

William Ralph Inge

My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?

Alber Elbaz

By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes ...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

The strength of the Christian system — the acid test of it — is that everything fits under the apex of the existent, infinite-personal God, and it is the only system in the world where this is true. No other system has an apex under which everyth...

He Is There and He Is Not Silent

There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts...

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

Her mind returned to Dr. Chaturvedi’s testimony. He had turned to Christianity because he had discovered that he was not special. He seemed happy enough, but was he really happy? Was Christianity just a club for people who had managed to lose their...

The Warrior

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true apprehensions of His glory. If the feast of worship is rare in the land, it is because there is a famine o...

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality to idol worship, creating a world in which a murderer can be forgiven and sent to heaven, whereas a loving and car...

Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings

I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.

The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature of the human person against the avaricious dreams of the capitalists and the diabolical schemes of t...

The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Lord of the Rings

I spit on the Christian God. When the White God arrived with the Spaniards, the Indians brought down fruit and corncakes and chocolate. The White Christian God proceeded to cut their hands off. He was not responsible for the Christian conquistadors? ...

The Western Lands

Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about an issue, give them time to come aro...

Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness

Good art requires the examination of faith issues from a variety of perspectives and voices. Yet for many audience members, the only way a film can be “Christian” is if there is a major altar-call type scene with a dramatic conversion. If the mov...

Jelani Greenidge

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

The Christian Religion An Enquiry

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

Tommy Hilfiger

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputatio...

David Novak

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

Mike Huckabee

The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.

Pierre Cardin

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Paul Ricoeur