#christianity

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#common #glory #holy #indeed #into

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#civilizing #globe #greatest #power #uplifting

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. ↗

— Michael Novak

#christians #hopeful #jews #judaism #too

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#religion #science #skepticism #the-bible #age

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. ↗

— Yann Martel

#age

The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of Christianity lay all across the Constitution. ↗

— Theodore H. White

#christianity #u-s-constitution #age

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age. ↗

— Rudolf Karl Bultmann

#cosmology #mythology #age

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#christianity #art

What a comfort to know that God is a poet. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#christianity #god #poetry #art

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #integrity #literature #writers #art