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If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.
Mother Angelica
If you don't create any friction, you aren't practicing Christianity properly.
2.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
John Knox
I have never been intimidated by the devil, yet I shiver every time I ascend the pulpit.
3.
The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.
John G. Lake
The essence of Christianity lies in embodying the attributes of Jesus Christ.
4.
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
John Calvin
Modesty is the commencement of genuine wisdom.
5.
Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in.
Reinhard Bonnke
'Christianity, dull? Same as the TV...unless we switch it on.'
6.
As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
William Bradford
As one tiny spark can stir a blaze, so the illumination kindled here has illuminated many, even to a certain extent our entire nation.
7.
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
St. Jerome
Internalize the Scripture as your passion... Immerse yourself in them, contemplate them, make them the focal point of your learning and investigations.
8.
If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
Francis Schaeffer
If we do not demonstrate affection to each other, the world has a right to doubt whether Christianity is genuine.
9.
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
Johann Sebastian Bach
I execute the melodies as inscribed, but it is the Almighty who creates the song.
10.
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
'Religion without obedience is always religion without the Redeemer.'
11.
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
Saint Augustine
'Jesus is not truly appreciated unless He is venerated above all else.'
12.
We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .
Heinrich Himmler
We shall not pause until we have eradicated Christianity.
13.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Michelangelo
Do not be anxious, for God did not make us to forsake us.
14.
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
David Platt
We are embracing a Christianity that revolves around indulging ourselves when the essential message of Christianity is truly about renouncing ourselves.
15.
Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.
Alistair Begg
Christianity is not about circumventing the hardships of life - it is about tackling the tribulations of life.
16.
Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
Aimee Semple McPherson
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Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
David Brainerd
'A single moment communing with the Almighty surpasses all the joys and contentment this life has to offer.'
18.
I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.
Keith Green
I'd rather have people despise me while knowing that I attempted to rescue them.
19.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian
20.
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.
William Wilberforce
21.
Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
Leonard Ravenhill
22.
I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.
Susanna Wesley
23.
There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
Brother Lawrence
24.
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
Saint John Chrysostom
25.
I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.
John Shelby Spong
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You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
Adolf Hitler
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I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.
Sathya Sai Baba
28.
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Martin Luther
29.
If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
Billy Sunday
32.
The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.
William Tyndale
33.
Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
Leonard Ravenhill
34.
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
Mark Twain
36.
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
Billy Sunday
37.
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Adoniram Judson
38.
It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.
Adolf Hitler
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Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.
Samuel Morse
40.
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.
Julius Streicher
41.
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
John Wesley
43.
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
Catherine Booth
44.
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
Francis Chan
45.
If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.
Francis Schaeffer
46.
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
Timothy Keller
47.
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.
Stanley Hauerwas
48.
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
49.
The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
Peter Kreeft
50.
It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
George Whitefield