#christianity

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. ↗

— John Burroughs

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The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. ↗

— Kathleen Norris

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…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. ↗

— John Lennon

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Whoever has My commandments and keeps them loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and show Myself to him. ↗

— Anonymous

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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. ↗

— Martin Luther

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When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity. ↗

— Rob Bell

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the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding ↗

— Anonymous

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