Pastoral Resources

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.