Quotes about Christianity
Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
— Philip Yancey
Over time Christians learned that the faith grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.
— Philip Yancey
do worry about the recent tendency for the labels "evangelical Christian" and "religious right" to become interchangeable. Increasingly Christians are perceived as rigid moralists who want to control others' lives.
— Philip Yancey
Christians tend to be Augustinian in theory but Pelagian in practice. They work obsessively to please other people and even God.
— Philip Yancey
the gospel of Jesus was not primarily a political platform. In all the talk of voting blocs and culture wars, the message of grace—the main distinctive Christians have to offer—tends to fall aside. It is difficult, if not impossible, to communicate the message of grace from the corridors of power.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is Christianity's best gift to the world, a spiritual nova in our midst exerting a force stronger than vengeance, stronger than racism, stronger than hate. Sadly, to a world desperate for this grace the church sometimes presents one more form of ungrace.
— Philip Yancey
In the Christian scheme of things, this world and the time spent here are not all there is. Earth is a proving ground, a dot in eternity — albeit an important dot, for Jesus said our destiny depends on our obedience here.
— Philip Yancey
That stance of openness to receive is what I call the "catch" to grace. It must be received, and the Christian term for that act is repentance, the doorway to grace.
— Philip Yancey
battle going on and, as Galatians 5:16 and 25 says, "Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh," and "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
— Priscilla Shirer
Stand firm therefore . . . having put on the breastplate of righteousness.—Ephesians 6:14 nasb
— Priscilla Shirer
One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!
— Kent Hughes
Jesus is literally the exegesis of God.
— Kent Hughes