The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

This is a very special place for Orthodox Christians and the whole Christian world. In Russia, we always held the monks who lived here in great admiration and respect. (Quote by - Vladimir Putin)

For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, no thought could be had of a permanent structure for gatherings. This would only facilitate matters for the Roman government in its merciless persecutions. The early Church was very conscious of its pilgrim character in a world which was at enmity with God. (Quote by - Donald L. Norbie)

We must get back to a very strong Christianity. .. Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great. (Quote by - George Carey)

Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears. (Quote by - Phineas Fletcher)

I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian. (Quote by - Nicholas Sparks)

If any of these be wanting, a Christian is not perfect, so much as in the perfection of parts. He is but half a Christian who is an orthodox believer, if he be not practical also; and he is but half a Christian who is practical, if he be not an orthodox believer. These ends of Scripture do not consist nor stand sure one without another. (Quote by - George Gillespie)

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.] (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you. (Quote by - Frederick Ward Kates)

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe (Quote by - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)

Christianity is a simple thing, at the same time it can be very complexed..Grasp the fact that Jesus died for our sins, get comfortable in your worship, then get into the deep stuff.. (Quote by - Kaleb Andrew Knight)

It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward. (Quote by - Charles H. Brent)

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers. (Quote by - Herman L. Wayland)

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no-one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt. It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament than have many theologians. (Quote by - F. F. Bruce)

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced. (Quote by - John Wren-lewis)

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

God will forgive me. That's his business. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? (Quote by - Katharine Whitehorn)

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude now; our individuality begins with it; our personality grows strong because of it; and we know, if we know anything, that while the more we approach the good the more we please God, at the same time the more we approach the good the more nobly distinctive, the more beautifully individual do our characters become. (Quote by - Lily Dougall)

And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, therefore we owe him nothing, we have no duty now to him? Has not redemption rather made us doubly debtors? We owe him more than ever: we owe his holy law more than ever; more honor, more obedience. Duty has been doubled, not canceled, by our being delivered from the law; and he who says that duty has ceased, because deliverance has come, knows nothing of duty, or law, or deliverance. (Quote by - Horatius Bonar)

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 No one who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous, faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain alarms, when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the most terrible word we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a great solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky. (Quote by - George Springs Merriam)