#christianity

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#area #areas #christianity #especially #even

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#around #centre #christianity #community #gathered

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#christianity #frank #goodness #i #little

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. ↗

— Herbert Read

#christianity #civilization #emerge #emerged #just

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. ↗

— Anne Rice

#angels #away #christianity #far #far away

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#always #been #christianity #new #problem

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#because #been #christianity #problem #proceeds

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#certainties #christianity #had #i #i think

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#billy graham #christ #christianity #comfortable #complacent

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty