Christian Faith Quotes - Page 6

• The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Mean, Giving

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• A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.

  Leland Ryken

  Christian, Philosophy, Issues

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.23, Shaw Books

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• There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Men, Faithful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Thinking, Interest

  "Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams resigns as he says successor must have 'constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros'". www.mirror.co.uk. March 16, 2012.

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• I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Thinking, Judging

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, p. 36, 1994.

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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

  Karl Lehmann

  Christian, Spiritual, Communication

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• When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Giving Up, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.58, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said

  Christopher Columbus

  Christian, Catholic, Enemy

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• It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Atheist, Jobs

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• So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  "Obama: 'A Christian by Choice'" by Kristin Brown, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2010.

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• The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Christian, Drama, Character

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• The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Believe, Trusted

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• The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship with human beings, we're in danger of losing the heart of the Christian faith. Doctrines, of course, will flow from that, but when the scriptures call us to Believe, we're being called to put our trust in Someone, not just agree with a bunch of doctrine. Demons could do that. We are to commit ourselves to Christ.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Believe, Heart

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• The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Focus

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2015

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• There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems social, political, cultural to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith, the view which sees all things here below in terms of God's supremacy and earth's transitoriness, in terms of Heaven and Hell.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• I'm a big believer in the Christian faith. I don't push it on anyone, though.

  Steve Trotter

  Christian, Bigs, Believer

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

  Jackie Mason

  Christian, Practice, People

  "Oy! Jackie Mason sues Jews for Jesus". The Associated Press, www.today.com. August 25, 2006.

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• Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting the inward truth about oneself, confessing one's anxiety, and still to believe, that is to say that the Christian puts his trust not in his own strength, but in the grace of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Christian, Strong, Believe

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.222, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Jesus, Names

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• I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.

  Francis Collins

  Christian, Believe, Rising

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• Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

  Rick Santorum

  Christian, Said, Okay

  "9 controversial Rick Santorum quotes". theweek.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.

  Mel White

  Christian, Church, Labels

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• In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Hope, Economic Models

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• Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.

  Herman Bavinck

  Christian, Tree, Church

  Herman Bavinck (2003). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena”, p.79, Baker Academic

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