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I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world, and I also invite each person, including our fellow Christians, followers of other religions and all men of good will, to participate, in whatever way they can, in this initiative.Collection: Christian
There are no part-time Christians.Collection: Christian
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).Collection: Christian
I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.Collection: Christian
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary eventsCollection: Christian
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.Collection: Christian
You say you're a Christian, Cause God made you, You say you're a Muslim, Cause God made you, You say you're a Hindu and the next man a Jew, Then we all kill each other, Cause God told us to? Nah!..Collection: Christian
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and ideas from other cultures that are alien to the worldview of the biblical writers. Therefore, in order fully to understand the Bible and allow the Bible to absorb the world (rather than the world - culture - absorb the Bible) we must practice an "archaeology" of the biblical writers' implicit, assumed view of reality.Collection: Christian
On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date. In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.Collection: Christian
Our relationship with the followers of Islam has taken on great importance, since they are now significantly present in many traditionally Christian countries, where they can freely worship and become fully a part of society. We must never forget that they "profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day".Collection: Christian
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.Collection: Christian
Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's design by God, and, by his grace, countless Christian men and women have lived married life fully.Collection: Christian
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.Collection: Christian
What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.Collection: Christian
If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.Collection: Christian
Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.Collection: Christian
We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.Collection: Christian
A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.Collection: Christian
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.Collection: Christian
The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.Collection: Christian
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.Collection: Christian
If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.Collection: Christian
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.Collection: Christian
I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.Collection: Christian
The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.Collection: Christian
A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!Collection: Christian
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.Collection: Christian
Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!Collection: Christian
Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.Collection: Christian
Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!Collection: Christian
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.Collection: Christian
Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.Collection: Christian
Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.Collection: Christian
In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.Collection: Christian
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.Collection: Christian
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.Collection: Christian
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.Collection: Christian
The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'Collection: Christian
Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.Collection: Christian
I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word.Collection: Christian
What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?Collection: Christian
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.Collection: Christian
It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness.Collection: Christian
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.Collection: Christian
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.Collection: Christian
Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.Collection: Christian
In the difficult moments of life, Christians can turn to the Mother of God and find protection and care.Collection: Christian
In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.Collection: Christian
Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.Collection: Christian