Quotes about Christianity
It is disappointment with the Christian church that appears to be more white than Christian, and with many white clergymen who prefer to remain silent behind the security of stained-glass windows.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity's affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Throughout the entire Christian era theism has lain like an incubus on all intellectual, especially philosophical endeavor and has prevented or stunted all progress; and when anyone has possessed the rare elasticity of mind which alone can slip free of these fetters, his writings have been burned and sometimes their author with them, as happened to Bruno and Vanini.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic.
— David Platt
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
— Martin Luther
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
— Martin Luther
Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.
— John Wesley
The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.
— Larry Crabb
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
— RC Sproul
It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.
— Billy Graham
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
— JC Ryle
The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about
— NT Wright