“...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for the people of God' (Heb. 4:9). God can 'bear these sabbaths' (cf. Is. 1:13) because they are true. And the one 'in which the world is crucified' (Gal. 6:14) reaches these sabbaths of rest because he has clearly turned away from worldly things and returned to his own spiritual resting place. The one who arrives there will no longer be moved from his place, for there he finds quiet and tranquility.” PeopleWorldEndsChristianSpiritualMovementDivineBearsQuietMovedOrthodoxTranquilityWorldlySabbathCfsGalsWorldly Things Author:Maximus the Confessor
“THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.” ChristianGivenReligiousChristianityInfluenceEffectsCenturyMovementWesternSpreadDuesImpulseEnterpriseLengthMissionaryNineteenth CenturyVigorCorrespondingReligious Life Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette
“America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.” WantBigsGovernmentChristianAmericaLawGrowsPracticeSupportPolicyMovementIndependentIntentionConservativeHeavyVersionsTemptationRighteousnessVotersDividesVersusTwistsHammersGood IntentionsBig GovernmentSmall Government Author:Dick Armey
“They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth.” MatterChristianChristianityMovementYouthBasesIntroducingOutspokenAnti ChristianHitler Youth Author:Baldur von Schirach
“Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.” KnowsHardChristianPoliticalIndividualGoalResponsibilityKnow HowAtheismMovementHard WorkDevelopmentMembersPaperRootsOrganizationArmyPressesPositive AtheismListsMeaningfulReleaseMinistersGrassActivistContrastHandfulAdvocacyOrganizationalGrassrootsChristian RightPolitical ChangeMobilizationMailingPress Release Author:Kenneth D. Wald
“What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.” ChristianChristianityClearMovementDiscoveryMythFascinatingDiverseSpectacularExplodingJudas Author:Elaine Pagels
“That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.” SaidProblemChristianChallengesReligiousMovementRootsDenyGravesSocialismSolidarityFanaticismNovemberPoland Book:God and Government Source: God and Government
“The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'” StatesChristianChurchReligiousDecisionMovementWallCourtSeparationSupremeSupreme CourtChurch And StatePublic LifeSeparation Between Church And State Author:Mickey Edwards
“Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.” WantMadeTodayChristianDifferencesReligiousRightsTroubleMovementMajorsInspiredLibertarianCivil RightsMake SenseRemoveBiblicalSecularArenaPublic LifeCivil Rights MovementAmerican LifeTrouble Making Author:Bruce L. Shelley
“Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.” PeopleWorldShouldDoeHas BeensCareChristianResponsibilityMovementCreationInspireResourcesConcernConcernedEnvironmentalCommittedDoctrineSufficientSustainabilityStewardshipVanguardEnvironmental Responsibility Author:John Stott
“The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.” ReasonChristianMovingGrowingMovementChristian LifeNo ReasonIgnite Author:Tullian Tchividjian