The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation His life His crucifixion and His resurrection.
The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
We should invade their countries kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all.
The answer of course in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland spreading the gospel.
Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity which so often have been in conflict.
If Christianity is not scientific and Science is not God then there is no invariable law and truth becomes an accident.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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.
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.
To be frank I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.