It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
Christianity Quotes
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.
It is impossible to reason upon things not comprehensible by reason; and therefore, if you keep to your text, which priests seldom do… you must admit a religion to which reason can apply, and this certainly is not the Christian religion. There is not an article in the Christian religion that is cognizable by reason.
It is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality unless they are prepared to take their stand upon the fundamentals of Christian theology.
Every bird that upwards swings – Bears the Cross upon its wings.
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
Christ, in His divine innocence, said to the woman of Samaria, ‘Ye worship ye know not what’ – being apparently under the impression that it might be desirable, on the whole, to know what one was worshipping. He thus showed Himself sadly out of touch with the twentieth century mind, for the cry today is: […]
A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment though the ministrations of a Christ without a cross. (summarizing the creed of American Christianity)
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
Not Herod, not Caiaphas, not Pilate, not Judas ever contrived to fasten upon Jesus Christ the reproach of insipidity; that final indignity was left for pious hands to inflict. To make of His story something that could neither startle, nor shock, nor terrify, nor excite, nor inspire a living soul is to crucify the Son […]
