That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!
I am the oldest young designer in New York City.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.
That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
