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“If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven would you be interested ’ ‘Hell yes ’ was his reply. He continued ‘Are there churches like that”
Source: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.”
Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration
“If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.”
Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.”
Source: Healology
“If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly love their neighbor? Would they catch a grenade for one of us (like some of us would for them because we truly have love in our hearts)?”
“If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.”
“If Christians cannot extend grace through faithful presence within the body of believers, they will not be able to extend grace to those outside.”
Source: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
“If Christians continue to rely on emotion and ignore evidence, they will continue to lose their children to secularism. As Ravi Zacharias points out, a tepid Christianity cannot withstand a rabid secularism. And make no mistake-secularism is rabid. The world isn't neutral out there. Today's culture is becoming increasingly anti-Christian.”
“If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace.”
Source: On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
“If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead.”
Source: The Great Conjecture: Who is this Jesus?
“If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.”
“If Christians read the Holy Bible, they know the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.”
Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
“If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.”
“If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.”
“If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality
“If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.”
“If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines.”
“If Christmas is not everything that it says it is, neither is anything else.”
“If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.”
“If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.”
Source: Inishfallen, fare thee well
“If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.”
“If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what they are doing in the world instead of chastened for not doing more at church? What if church felt more like a way station than a destination? What if the church’s job were to move people out the door instead of trying to keep them in, by convincing them that God needed them more in the world than in the church?”
Source: Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.”
“If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.”
“If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?”
Source: A Rulebook for Arguments
“If Cinderella were given a single shining epiphany (instead of a fairy godmother), she would have realized: "This is my father's house. This is my father's estate. I am the rightful heiress to everything here!" then she would have said: "Get off of my property, take nothing with you, and never show your faces to me again! You ugly, bitter, insecure, envious witches!" And I'm sure she would have been happier, sooner!”
“If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.”
“If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.”
“If circumstances are always the rulers, the shallow existence of instant gratification will keep us as mere spectators of our lives. Get up! Clarify! Get in the game and live!”
“If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.”
“If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.”
Source: The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer
“If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.”
“If circumstances make you lift your feet off the floor, don’t start crawling on the ceiling. This is the nature of Maya (Space-Time). The ceiling becomes the new floor. The high becomes the new low. Fly in the nothingness (Shunya) within which everything including the floor and the ceiling exists!”
“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")”
“If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“If citizens are punished instantly for breaking the laws, then politicians should also be punished immediately for breaking the promises.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law. Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law.”
Source: Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
“If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.”
“If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco”
“If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?”
“If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.”
“If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.”
“If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.”
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.”