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Image of Anne Nicol Gaylor
For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs that it is the birthday of Jesus. It is the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun-Dies Natalis Invicti Solis. Christmas is a relic of sun worship.
- Anne Nicol Gaylor
Collection: Christian
Image of Winkie Pratney
Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.
- Winkie Pratney
Collection: Christian
Image of H. Richard Niebuhr
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
- H. Richard Niebuhr
Collection: Christian
Image of Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.
- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
Collection: Christian
Image of Joseph Priestley
It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, especially from the unlearned among the Christians, who thought that it savoured of Polytheism , that it was introduced by those who had had a philosophical education, and was by degrees adopted by others, on account of its covering the great offence of the cross , by exalting the personal dignity of our Saviour.
- Joseph Priestley
Collection: Christian
Image of Joseph Priestley
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.
- Joseph Priestley
Collection: Christian
Image of Joseph Priestley
Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
- Joseph Priestley
Collection: Christian
Image of Ashley Young
For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.
- Ashley Young
Collection: Christian
Image of George Amos Dorsey
Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.
- George Amos Dorsey
Collection: Christian
Image of James Henley Thornwell
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.
- James Henley Thornwell
Collection: Christian
Image of Christopher Wren
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
- Christopher Wren
Collection: Christian
Image of Douglas Wilson
A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.
- Douglas Wilson
Collection: Christian
Image of Justin Martyr
Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.
- Justin Martyr
Collection: Christian
Image of Justin Martyr
The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.
- Justin Martyr
Collection: Christian
Image of Justin Martyr
For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians
- Justin Martyr
Collection: Christian
Image of Justin Martyr
If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.
- Justin Martyr
Collection: Christian
Image of Justin Martyr
... it is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of the world, we have learned; for we know that our Master Jesus Christ said, that 'what is impossible with men is possible with God' (Mt. 19:26)?
- Justin Martyr
Collection: Christian
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But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.
- Justin Martyr
Collection: Christian
Image of Derek Clayton
If only more Christians read their bibles there'd be less Christians.
- Derek Clayton
Collection: Christian
Image of Lester Roloff
A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus. You will never know down here that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have left. You will never be able to tell the world for sure that He will do in a crisis unless you learn how to live in a crisis.
- Lester Roloff
Collection: Christian
Image of Lester Roloff
...You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied.
- Lester Roloff
Collection: Christian
Image of Lester Roloff
God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible.
- Lester Roloff
Collection: Christian
Image of Lester Roloff
Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware; the government wants your child!
- Lester Roloff
Collection: Christian
Image of Lester Roloff
A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.
- Lester Roloff
Collection: Christian
Image of Lester Roloff
Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy.
- Lester Roloff
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold - let us call on the Lord. He will come to warm our hearts with perfect love, not only for Him but also for our neighbor, and the cold of him who hates the good will flee before the heat of His countenance.
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's sake, even though it be good, brings neither reward in the future life nor the grace of God in this life. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said: 'He who gathers not with Me scatters' (Lk. 11:23).
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it has received something Divine, does not demand anything else in order to convince it that this is precisely from the Lord; but by that very effect it is convinced that this is heavenly, for it senses within itself spiritual fruits: love, joy, peace, and the rest (cf. Gal. 5:22).
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, still shines in our hearts with the inextinguishable light of Christ ... and when the sinner turns to the way of repentance the light smooths away every trace of the sins committed, clothing the former sinner in the garments of incorruption, spun of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. It is this acquisition of the Holy Spirit about which I have been speaking.
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner eye the Sun of justice, Christ! Then in truth one rejoices with angelic joy; of this the Apostle too said: 'Our conversation is in heaven' (Phil. 3:20).
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new sins), come to Him, our Savior, with perfect repentance for tormenting Him, who despise all the strength of the fetters of sin and force themselves to break their bonds ? such people at last actually appear before the face of God made whiter than snow by His grace. 'Come, says the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them whiter than snow' (Isa. 1:18).
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Seraphim of Sarov
...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?
- Seraphim of Sarov
Collection: Christian
Image of Adoniram Judson
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
- Adoniram Judson
Collection: Christian
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If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
- Adoniram Judson
Collection: Christian
Image of Adoniram Judson
Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.
- Adoniram Judson
Collection: Christian
Image of Ammianus Marcellinus
No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other
- Ammianus Marcellinus
Collection: Christian
Image of Gregory of Nyssa
It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please men, can fulfill that first and great commandment of the Master, 'You shall love God with all your heart and with all your strength' (Mt. 22:37).
- Gregory of Nyssa
Collection: Christian
Image of Gregory of Nyssa
There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith in this mystery is to look to Him who suffered the passion for us. The cross is the passion, so that whoever looks to it? is not harmed by the poison of desire. To look to the cross means to render one's whole life dead and crucified to the world.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Collection: Christian
Image of Gregory of Nyssa
Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers takes place, and he who is begotten by this Trinity is equally begotten of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost —for thus does the Gospel speak of the Spirit, that “that which is born of Spirit is spirit,” and it is “in Christ “that Paul begets, and the Father is the “Father of all”.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Collection: Christian
Image of Adam Clarke
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.
- Adam Clarke
Collection: Christian
Image of Richard Aldington
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?
- Richard Aldington
Collection: Christian
Image of Archibald Alexander Hodge
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
- Archibald Alexander Hodge
Collection: Christian
Image of Archibald Alexander Hodge
I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.
- Archibald Alexander Hodge
Collection: Christian
Image of Jacques Monod
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random...nevertheless although the miracle of life stands "explained" it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe.
- Jacques Monod
Collection: Christian
Image of Alasdair MacIntyre
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve
- Alasdair MacIntyre
Collection: Christian