Quotes of: Christian-nation Keyword

Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, bu...

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

On Christian Liberty

The Christian witness never benefits when Christian organizations are known more for what they are against than what they are for.

Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but ma...

Sheldon Vanauken

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 Christi...

Thich Nhat Hanh

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

Gary North

Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it ...

A Circle of Quiet

Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class ...

Knowing God

The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen, the doubt as to the value of teaching arithmetic in Christian sch...

The Case for Classical Christian Education

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or...

A History of Christianity

The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one’s being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the ...

The Kind of Preaching God Blesses

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the...

What's So Great About Christianity

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christi...

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountif...

The Garden of The Prophet

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

E. Stanley Jones

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

Hideo Kojima

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christi...

Zachary Levi

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ di...

Red Letter Christians: A Christian's Guide to Faith and Politics, a Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics