“There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.” CountryEnoughChristianReligiousChristianityIdentitySignificantOur CountryHeritageComponents Book:New Kind of Conservative (Large Print 16pt) Source: New Kind of Conservative (Large Print 16pt)
“Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings .” RememberSongSpeakChristMemoriesChristianityTeacherIdentityOur MemoriesCeltic Author:John Philip Newell
“I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.” WorldReligiousChristianityTreeIdentityTruth IsViolentIslamicNigeria Author:Eliza Griswold
“The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.” NeedsSelfOrderDiesChristianityIdentityAutonomyRenounceFixation Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
“During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.” WritingFirstsStatesGovernmentMemoriesExistenceChristianityCenturyAwarenessIdentityInvolvedSacredLifetimeIslamFaithfulFoundersReligion And GovernmentWriting History Author:Bernard Lewis