True Christianity Quotes:

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Faith, Religious, Catholic, Christian Living, Christian Church

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Jesus, Believe, Communication, True Christianity

True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

- Rick Joyner

topic: Sacrifice, Christianity, Lord, Selflessness, Christian Service

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

- Ray Stedman

topic: Spirit, Christianity, Behavior, Christ Like, True Christianity

True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

- David O. McKay

topic: Men, Missionary, Unselfish Love, Missionary Work, True Christianity

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

- Jonathan Edwards

source: Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.153, David C Cook

topic: Humility, Views, Essentials, True Christianity

actions speak louder than words

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom, Broken Promises, Influencing People

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

source: "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 16, 1799.

topic: Christian, Long, People, True Christianity

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

- Seraphim Rose

topic: Jesus, World, Kingdoms, True Christianity

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Prayer, Christianity, True Christianity

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Fruit, Christianity, Good Nature, True Christianity

True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

- Ernest Renan

topic: Christian, Writing, Rocks, Christian Theology, True Christianity

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Sex, Rocks, Drug, True Christianity, Sex Drugs

...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Christian, Religious, Self Esteem, Kingdom Of God, True Christianity

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

- Pope Pius XII

topic: Different, Today, Foundation, True Christianity

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

- George Whitefield

source: George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.48, Hendrickson Publishers

topic: Religious, Together, Decay, True Christianity

If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

- Pope Pius XI

topic: Christian, Religious, Errors, Human Society, True Christianity

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.22, Gerald Duckworth & Co

topic: Vanity, May, Example, Ecclesiastes, True Christianity

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

- William Wilberforce

topic: Political, Estimating, Gains, True Christianity

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.

- Robert Simonds

topic: Christian, Government, Office, True Christianity

The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Religious, Years, Two, Characterization, Religious Education

Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse of the poor are the result of the refusal of true Christianity ... one is led to articulate a more incarnate, more participatory, more aesthetic, more erotic, more socialized, even a more 'Platonic' Christianity.

- John Milbank

topic: Political, Erotic, Abuse, Puritanism, True Christianity

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: People, Soul, Littles, True Christianity