Quotes about Christianity
Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
- Ignatius of Antioch
I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
- Lou Holtz
Jesus provided reasons to believe through many different means, the most dramatic of which were miracles done in public as authentication.
- Francis J. Beckwith
The most effective apologist is not one who has the greatest academic prowess alone, but the one who has excellent intellectual preparation and reflects Christ's love in every way.
- Francis J. Beckwith
In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.
- Frank Viola
When Christianity was born, it was the only religion on the planet that had no sacred objects, no sacred persons, and no sacred spaces.'8 Although surrounded by Jewish synagogues and pagan temples, the early Christians were the only religious people on earth who did not erect sacred buildings for their worship.19 The Christian faith was born in homes, out in courtyards, and along roadsides.20
- Frank Viola
Every year that we grow in the Lord, Jesus Christ looms larger and greater in our eyes.
- Frank Viola
The triune God stands at the beginning and at the end of the Christian pilgrimage and, therefore, at the center of Christian faith.
- Frank Viola
If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?
- Frederick Douglass
If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology.
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
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