#christianity

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. ↗

— David Kirk

#christianity #concerns #division #end #god

The public highways, which had been constructed for the use of the legions, opened an easy passage for the Christians missionaries from Damascus to Corinth, and from Italy to the extremity of Spain or Britain; nor did those spiritual conquerors encounter any of the obstacles which usually retard or prevent the introduction of a foreign religion into a distant country. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind. ↗

— Don Cupitt

#god #religion #religion

...pero sé que hay hombres buenos y malos, y que estos reflejan en su dios, predicando falsamente en su nombre, sus propias miserias. ↗

— Jorge Molist

#god #religion #religion

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#christianity #convert #did #i #out

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword. ↗

— Steven Runciman

#came #christianity #islam #never #peace

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#always #battle #better #better player #christianity

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#ever #greatest #intellectual #man #mind

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#christianity #life #provides #unified #whole

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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