#christians

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#arise #christian #christians #could #customs

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#certainly #christ #christian #christians #conviction

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. ↗

— Anne Rice

#being #christians #hate #many #others

I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#christians #each #everywhere #find #god

It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#circle #friends #i #i do #important

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#art #art form #arts #chosen #christians

Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#chubby #jerry #just #kind #lions

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#began #christians #crowd #define #did

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#challenge #check #christians #commitment #convenience

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it. ↗

— Randall Terry

#america #behaved #believed #christians #know