If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Christianity Quotes
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years, with time off for good behavior?
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
An important point is that the correlation between the death of religious faith and the death of peoples and civilization is absolute. I believe that the death of Christianity in the soul of Western man, and its replacement by a more materialistic, hedonistic, individualistic, la dolce vita belief, and the embrace of the sexual revolution […]
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues on the part of the asserter either gross ignorance or else willful fraud… The system of morals expounded in the New Testament contains no maxims which had not been previously enunciated.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one’s enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
Christianity’s record is indisputably spotted. But standing in eternal reproof of that record, crying hypocrisy and betrayal, is Christianity itself, quitessentially embodied in the example of Jesus. In the case of Islam, the charge of hypocrisy hardly applies–certainly not on the matter of religious violence. To put the issue at its starkest, there is simply […]
And revolutions in Christian history have always been a judgement upon historical Christianity, upon Christians, upon their betrayal of the Christian covenant, upon their distortion of Christianity… (Revolution) is a challenge to Christians and a reminder that they have not made justice a fact of experience.
