“I ... am endeavoring ... to attend to my own duty only as a Christian. ... let us take care that our Christianity, though put to the test ... be not shaken, and that our love for things really good wax not cold.” CareChristianMy OwnChristianityDutyColdTestsTake CareOur Love Author:William Samuel Johnson
“If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'” IfsShouldChristianFacesChristMy OwnChristianityInterpretationSermonsSermon On The Mount Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.” KnowsMovingJesusChristMy OwnChristianityApproachCommitmentJesus ChristProtectionGuidance Author:Anne Rice
“I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.” WantGivingFeelsFactsReligiousMy OwnChristianityEmotionalMastersTypeOppositesPhilosophicalConversionGave Up Author:C. S. Lewis
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.” YearsCountryTermCommunityChurchMy OwnMoralChristianityRolesClearGenerationsBuildingBenefitsCatholicMovedImmigrantsExcessSecularCatholic ChurchCritiqueAmerican LifePropheticBuilding Community Author:Ross Douthat
“I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.” IfsThinkingMeanChildrenYoungTurnsFatherGrowsChurchMy OwnChristianityGrowing UpBearsJudgmentTraditionHistoricalCriticsObserversYoung ChildrenDisheartenedEpiscopalians Author:Jon Meacham
“Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.” PeopleMy OwnChristianityDevilDecentGasChamberCrudePiousGood ChristianGas Chambers Author:Lionel Blue
“We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.” WorldCountryDoneMy OwnChristianityCenturyShapesIslamIncludingAppreciationIslamicHusseinChristian FaithMind BlowingIslamistsChristianity And IslamTrojan HorseIslamic Faith Author:Barack Obama