#christ

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ? ↗

— Pontius Pilate

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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. ↗

— Karl Rahner

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And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons. ↗

— Robert Rainy

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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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All history is incomprehensible without Christ. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me. ↗

— Christina Ricci

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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. ↗

— Anne Rice

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