#christianity

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ↗

— William Penn

#christianity #hardest #learn #lesson #love

The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#prayer #dreams

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bible #christianity #death #essence #evil

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#anything #christianity #ever #far #heard

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 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 supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#disagree #for the people #friends #heaven #hell

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#answers #born #christianity #embraced #failed

The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#been #beliefs #christian #christianity #diversity