#christianity

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#anti #ascent #christianity #civilization #conditions

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

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#destruction #devil #falsity #infernal #invention

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade. ↗

— Huston Smith

#found #grade #i #like #made

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits. ↗

— John Calvin

#god #worship #religion

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances. ↗

— Sheldon Vanauken

#christianity #religion #religion

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blessed #christian #christianity #disciple #divine