Sentences with phrase «great about christianity»

But lest I sound too waffling, I will say and quote this from Dinesh D'Souza's book «What is so great about Christianity?»

I always felt it was a pity that church folk were so intent on disparaging others, they missed what's great about Christianity.

I googled this quotation, and it seems to come from Dinesh d'Souza's «What's so great about Christianity?».

Not exact matches

I don't believe in Christianity from a fear factor, but if that's what it takes to just get someone to think about it and take the time to learn and educate themselves, then great.

it wasn't religion that brought about the 1st and 2nd Great Awakenings, it was Christianity.

Funny thing about your shallow American Christianity, whether here on this blog or out on the streets of the US... you look nothing like Jesus or the 1st C apostles (who all claimed that you should be like them and that you would do «greater things» than they did).

This weekend (May 29), on what would be the 1412h birthday of one of the faith's greatest writers, we look at 15 of his quotes that can help you reshape how you think about Christianity.

The Middle Ages brought about a great flowering of Christian culture: the cathedrals and the philosophical systems (especially in Thomas Aquinas), as well as Christianity's development of social structures.

There the church was Latin - speaking and produced great writers and leaders such as Tertullian (c.160 - c. 225), who was brought up in Carthage, and Cyprian (d. 258), who was a pagan orator who was converted to Christianity in about 246 and who, two years later, was elected Bishop of Carthage.

... Reminds me of what Frederica Matthewes - Green says here about the differences that developed between the eastern churches and western Christianity in the centuries following the great schism.

The Century published a great many articles by Reinhold Niebuhr over a period of some 15 years, until Christianity and Crisis was launched by Niebuhr and associates at about the time America became involved in World War II.

Since the Reformation was great in stating its faith, there are many Protestants who think we are most Protestant when we issue new statements of faith in order to manifest what Christianity is all about.

People as far away as Germania (Germany) and Britannia (Great Britain), who knew next to nothing about Christianity, were told that the Empire was now Christian, and it would be prudent for them to convert.

So Mormons do know a great deal about Christianity.

people do that ALL THE TIME, but you would never know that because you're too busy fantasizing about how great it was in the days that christianity itself filled its pews and wielded social power with the terrifying threat of physical violence

Bardaisan, born about AD 154 in Edessa and converted to Christianity in about AD 175, was a poet and philosopher and a great original thinker.

Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North American church folk could stand back from their sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and free - enterprise democracy with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.

After all, when writing a book about music and Christianity, why wouldn't one bother to emphasize that great tradition of musically - focused Christian faith, drawing upon the resources which, in God's providence, that tradition alone could provide.

Please, don't let us marginalise faith in God, or ignore what Christianity offers, or sneer at the possibility that men and women can know about the deepest and greatest things.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Wouldn't it be great if Christianity stated to be about treating people fairly, nurturing the poor, weak, and young, and compassion?

He talks about morality like Christianity is always so great at defining it.

Allusions to his own strangely skewed versions of Christianity, Judaism, gnosticism and alchemy abound, and he has acknowledged that he thinks a great deal about religion «because science provides no answers.»

Speaking during News Hour he said that while she was «recognised thankfully for her work and did a great job in witnessing to the charity of Christianity across the world», lots about her is not known.

For it is Christianity to be sure which has taught this about the God - Man, about the likeness between God and man, but Christianity is a great hater of wanton and impertinent forwardness.

Meanwhile a series of forces converged to bring about the greatest turning point in the history of American Christianity.

In his foreword to the programme for yesterday's all prayer breakfast, David Cameron wrote «I believe very deeply that we should be confident in Britain about our status as a Christian country... Greater confidence in our Christianity can also inspire a stronger belief in our work as politicians to get out there and make a difference to people's lives — and it should inspire our support for churches and faith organisations in the vital work they do in our society and around the world.

The materials have informative exercises about the things that Christianity is famous for, such as Jesus, the Apostles, the Great Schism, Churches, the Bible and many other things!

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