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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...

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Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none...

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Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growt...

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It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks ...

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Of course in the present situation the Communists have to use various disguises. Sometimes we hear w...

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The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be ...

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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritu...

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Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call....

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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, drea...

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We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in t...

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But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and ...

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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, ...

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If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet...

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Andrew BonarMemoir and Remains of R.M. M'Cheyne

Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a ...

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Andrew BonarMemoir and Remains of R.M. M'Cheyne

Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives.  This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdo...

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How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he ke...

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The giver is more than the gift; God is more than the blessing. And our being kept waiting on Him is...

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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origi...

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If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternal...

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We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't pu...

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O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous mo...

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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...

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There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah,...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginn...

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Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary prie...

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The higher Christian churches...come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authori...

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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor...

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Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when...

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I don't approve of mixing ideologies," Ivanov continued. "There are only two conceptions of human et...

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As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised a...

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So at last Ilar Sant came to this wood, which people now call St. Hilary's wood because they have fo...

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He remembered an old tale which his father was fond of telling him—the story of Eos Amherawdur (the ...

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When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile are...

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[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided em...

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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own...

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Bart D. EhrmanDid Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who l...

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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

His Christianity was muscular.

Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much no...

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If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun...

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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been bel...

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Bertrand RussellAn Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity

It is true that the modern Christian is less robust, but that is not thanks to Christianity; it is t...

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

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that...

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Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's for...

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I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't b...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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‎Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumsta...

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If it is Christian, it will be Bible-centered.

God says it is our duty as Christians to take care of widows and orphans and to help the poor within...

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We must have a virile, dynamic, aggressive Christian who lives Christ seven days a week, who is read...

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We can never live this [Christian] life on the highest plane unless we are continually growing and m...

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A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced...

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Christianity is not primarily a matter of externals, nevertheless it does find expression in convers...

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The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right...

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Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost...

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Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack o...

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Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.

Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Man...

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To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian’s goodness is a rebuke ...

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Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world.

The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philos...

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If we have our eyes upon ourselves, our problems, and our pain, we cannot lift our eyes upward. A ch...

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What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us ...

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Some people think that going to church on Sunday and owning a dust-covered Bible makes a person a Ch...

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Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable countercu...

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If you are a true Christian . . .you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit . ....

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A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his child...

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Many Christians who profess Christ do not live as though they possess Him.

Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealth...

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Many people ask about Christianity the same [way] they ask about everything else today: “What’s in i...

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Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.

The Christian has a great obligation to be ethical and honest in all things, even sometimes at perso...

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The goal of a child’s life is maturity—and the goal of a Christian’s life is spiritual maturity.

There are too many professed Christians who never get “wrought up” about anything; they never get in...

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The Christian is not to be disturbed by thechaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war tha...

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Christianity is a Gospel of crisis. It proclaims unmistakably that this world’s days are numbered.

It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian lif...

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The greatest need in the world today is for fully committed Christians.

It’s tough to be a Christian in our world. We need to be willing to take on Jesus’ unpopularity and ...

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There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from...

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Millions of professing Christians are only just that—“professing.” They have never possessed Christ....

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Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is sati...

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We have made Christianity too easy.

Our generation has become well versed in Christian terminology but is remiss in the actual practice ...

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All of Christianity is based on a person—Jesus Christ. Christ Himself is the embodiment of the Gospe...

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Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the...

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Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.

Christianity is not a spectator sport, it’s something in which we become totally involved.

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.

In some churches and religious television programs, we see an effort to make Christianity popular an...

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Christianity has its roots in the deep, firm soil of history. Jesus’ incarnation—God invading human ...

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I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if...

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For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this worl...

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