Quotes about Christianity

Isn't it true," St. Josemaria once said, "that you have seen the need to become a soul of prayer, to reach an intimacy with God that leads to divinization? Such is the Christian faith as always understood by souls of prayer." And as if to prove the "always" part, he goes on to quote St. Clement of Alexandria, who wrote around the year 203 A.D.: "A man becomes God, because he loves whatever God loves.

In communion with Christ, you and I are members of his body, his Church, together with our fellow Christians

Spreading the love of Jesus Christ is a duty of all Christians. We can't keep our faith unless we give it away.

The second-century Letter to Diognetus put it beautifully: "As the soul is in the body, so Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world…. The invisible soul is guarded by the visible body, and Christians are known indeed to be in the world, but their godliness remains invisible.

Opus Dei's authority extends only to the personal spiritual formation of its members.

Nevertheless, secularity, like any good thing, can be overdone. In our zeal to laicize our piety, we shouldn't leave people guessing whether we're Christians. That would be every bit as unnatural as wearing a monk's habit over one's work clothes. Our secularity should never lapse into secularism.

the heart of Opus Dei is the Christian experience of divine filiation. God is our Father. We are His children in Christ Jesus, the eternal Son; thus, gathered together around His table, the Church is the family of God on earth, as the Trinity is the Family of God in heaven.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit

Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.