Quotes about Christianity
As natural as it may be to want to play on the winning team, the wish to secure divine favoritism strikes me as the worst possible reason to practice any religion. If the man who asked that question could not think of a dozen better reasons to be a Christian than that, then what, indeed, was he doing there?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
It just seems helpful to admit that Christianity is as complicated and conflicted as any other religion, with groups of followers who can believe in the unity of their faith even as they refuse Communion to one another.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
In a single sentence, Gandhi has given me a new way to live with the verse at the end of Matthew's Gospel, which Christians sometimes call the Great Commission. The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact. Become worthy of the message, and join the spinning brigade. Why isn't that the Great Commission?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Is Christian faith primarily about being Christian or becoming truly human?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
With so many cesspools to fall into in life, we need a spring we can go to for splashes of joy — a spring full of living water that only Jesus provides. The foundation of all joy for Christians is that we can live as though Christ died yesterday, rose today, and is coming tomorrow.
— Barbara Johnson
Even being a Christian, you go through hard times. But you either go through hard times not having hope or realizing that Jesus is the only hope.
— Jeremy Camp
My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
— Joel Osteen
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
— John Foxe
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
— Mother Angelica
The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
— Tony Campolo
Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.
— Franklin Graham