Quotes of: Christian-religion Keyword

Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist, and teaches intolerance and inequality. When a parent forces a child into a religion, the parent is effec...

Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings

In this postcolonial context, my contention is that interreligious engagement is enhanced by renewed attention to the particularity of religious traditions. From a European (Anglican) standpoint, a revised particularist theology of religions is propo...

Postcolonial Theology of Religions: Particularity and Pluralism in World Christianity

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

The judicial methods used by the Communists in our day are the same as those of the Holy Inquisition. To secure the Reign of Terror, the Communists are as brutal as the Christian Church was during a long period of thirteen hundred years, for the same...

Dignitarian Way - Criticism of Christianity, The Jews and Religion, by Great Authorities

The nature of pure and genuine religion…consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are not--that is, when they have nothing to ...

Letter to a Christian Nation

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

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

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

True Christian Religion, Vol 1

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

David Kirk

Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.

David Novak