“Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.” MenChildrenYoungJesusDivorceIntellectYoung ManHeroicRidiculeMartyrAltarsPietySophistry Book:John Bunyan, a lecture Source: John Bunyan, a lecture
“The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!” JesusChristHellAtheismOne DaySalvationPositive AtheismAliensSaviorTestamentFuryNew TestamentPietyPersonal RelationshipsBoilingScornedBusters Author:Robert M. Price
“Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.” WayBelieveRealityJesusChurchChristianityStudySeeingCharityGenuineDoctrineDiscipleshipWorldviewPietyBible StudyAttendanceComprehendingChurch AttendanceStudy And Work Book:How Now Shall We Live? Source: How Now Shall We Live?
“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.” HeartWarFeelingsChristianJesusInterestChurchChristianityLordTeachingMercyGrandmotherAggressiveTraitsDominantMy GrandmotherPietyProtestantsRebukeAscendancy Author:Mary McCarthy
“At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.” PeopleMindTwoChristianJesusChristSinLordSeriousRootsExcuseContraryBlockAddressesCommandmentsConsideringOffenseScandalRefusalPietyChristian FaithEvangelicalHinderStumblingIntellectualismEvasionStumbling Blocks Author:Os Guinness