Quotes about Christianity
One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it!
— Scot McKnight
J. Nelson Kraybill therefore contends that the "rapture" more accurately describes not being whisked away into heaven but our going out to meet Jesus to welcome him back to earth!
— Scot McKnight
If you compare the written prayers from the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, or those we find in the prayer books of the church, one thing will immediately strike any reader: The prayers from those sources are theologically rich and aesthetically appropriate. I cannot always say this of the spontaneous prayers of many Christians—and I am not impugning their motives or questioning their hearts.
— Scot McKnight
Gospels of Sin Management" presume a Christ with no serious work other than redeeming humankind … [and] they foster "vampire Christians," who only want a little blood for their sins but nothing more to do with Jesus until heaven. Dallas
— Scot McKnight
John does not adjudicate how to engage in politics. Instead, John instructs Christians how to discern the moral character of governments and politicians and policies and laws.
— Scot McKnight
The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.
— Shane Claiborne
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
— Tony Campolo
Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.
— Tony Campolo
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
— Karl Barth
They mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just the same.
— Mark Twain
Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian—not to acquire his religion, but his guns. The Turk and the Chinaman will buy those to kill missionaries and converts with.
— Mark Twain
A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.
— Mark Twain