Christian Faith Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Different, World

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.50

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• The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Teacher, Teaching

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• If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.

  Erich Fromm

  Christian, Mean, Reflection

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.80, NavPress

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• Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

  George Carey

  Christian, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Belief

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• The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Evil, Mountain

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• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, 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.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Christian, Mother

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• Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Character, Son

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• If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Christian, Country

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

  Andy Stanley

  Faith, Christian, Simple

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• Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

  Ken Hensley

  Christian, Real, Expression

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• The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Christian, Mean, Heart

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• Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is an immature, superficial faith. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Cheating, Emotional

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• Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Important, Individual

  "Interview: Philip Yancey on U.S. Christianity, Faith That Matters". Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2010.

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• How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind, heart and life; with our free will? Are all the three powers of our souls penetrated by holy faith, as were the souls of the saints? The kingdom of heaven 'is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened' (Lk. 13:21). The three measures are the three powers of the soul.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Heaven

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• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Believe, Dark

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• The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Done, Bigs

  Watchman Nee (2005). “A Table in the Wilderness”, p.23, CLC Publications

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Army, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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• The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Christian, Window, Cathedrals

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Marble Faun”, p.270, Booklassic

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• It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

  Bill Vaughan

  Christian, Real, Dawn

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• After 9/11, there were a lot of things being said about how the God of Islam and the God of the Christian faith were one and the same, but that's simply not true ... The God that I worship does not require me to kill other people. The God that I worship tells me I am to love my enemy, to give him food when he's hungry and water when he's thirsty.

  Franklin Graham

  God, Christian, Giving

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• As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented as a competitor in the realm of ideas to be considered on the basis of its merits, but this is mere disguise. Like the Mafia, if Christianity fails to defeat its competition by legitimate means (which is a forgone conclusion), it resorts to strong-arm tactics. Have faith or be damned - this biblical doctrine alone is enough to exclude Christianity from the domain of reason.

  George H. Smith

  Christian, Strong, Mean

  George H. Smith (1974). “Atheism: The Case Against God”

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• I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.

  Robert M. Price

  Christian, Thinking, Atheism

  Opening Statement on Mars Hill Forum at Unitarian Church, Monclair, New Jersey, www.mars-hill-forum.com. January 11, 1997.

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