QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity is not a complicated philosophy that has in the meanwhile also become obsolete, not a package of dogmas and rules beyond being grasped as a whole. Christian faith is being touched by God and witnessing to him.

--Pope Benedict XVI, “The Church on the Threshold of the Third Millennium”, Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith

QUOTATION: The Collapse of Christianity

When Christianity collapses into purely this-worldly preoccupations—as it has, sadly, in much of Europe—it rapidly dries up.

--Robert Barron, Vibrant Paradoxes: The Both/And of Catholicism

QUOTATION: Judgement in Christianity

Anyone who wants Christianity to be just a joyful message in which there can be no threat of the judgement is distorting it.

--Pope Benedict XVI, “Eucharist and Mission”, Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith

QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity is not a highly complicated collection of so many dogmas that it is impossible for anyone to know them all; it is not something exclusively for academicians who can study these things, but it is something simple: God exists and God is close in Jesus Christ.

--Pope Benedict XVI, Questions and Answers, 2008

QUOTATION: Truth

Christianity has done something which is totally revolutionary. Christ did not say “I have the truth”, he said “I am the truth”, Moses did not say so, Buddha did not say so, Mohammed did not say so. Christ alone claims that He is The Truth, capital T. Now, the very moment that you are confronted with the Truth, and you suddenly discover all the lies that are in us, there are two possibilities. Either you kneel down and adore and recognise Christ to be God, or you run away and say “depart from us, we can do without you”.

--Alice von Hildebrand, “The Secular War on the Supernatural.”

QUOTATION: Christophobia

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

--G.K. Chesterton

QUOTATION: Rejecting Christianity

I consider the rejection of Christianity to arise from a fault of the heart, not of the intellect; that unbelief arises, not from mere error of reasoning, but either from pride or from sensuality.

--Blessed John Henry Newman

QUOTATION: Christian Belief

Christian belief -- as we have already said-- means opting for the view that what cannot be seen is more real than what can be seen.

--Cardinal Josef Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Introduction to Christianity, 1968

QUOTATION: Christianity

The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

--Pope Francis

QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity does not exist without a Cross. There is no possibility to exit from our sins ourselves.

--Pope Francis, Homily, April 8, 2014

QUOTATION: Marriage

When the Christian religion is rejected and repudiated, marriage sinks of necessity into the slavery of man's vicious nature and vile passions, and finds but little protection in the help of natural goodness.

--Pope Leo XIII,  Arcanum

QUOTATION: Christianity

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

--G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

-- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Christianity and Science

Christianity, by emphasizing discipline, reason, and the value of nature as such, became the rock on which empirical science was founded. Science arose and could arise only in a Christian civilization. The East, lacking this foundation, never became scientific. Science is not inimical to a Christian civilization, for it has flourished only in a Christian civilization. It has not flourished in a Buddhist civilization, nor amongst the Mohammedans, for the reason that a pantheistic civilization that confuses God and the world can never get hold of the world alone to study it scientifically. The Christian conception, on the contrary, makes God and the world distinct, and therefore make it possible for a man to study the universe as the universe. In doing this, man follows out the injunction of the Creator, Who commanded man to rule over the earth and subject it. 

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Old Errors and New Labels

QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

--St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to Romans, 3:3

QUOTATION: Sinners No Argument Against Christianity

It is no disgrace to Christianity, it is no disgrace to any great religion, that its counsels of perfection have not made every single person perfect. If after centuries a disparity is still found between its ideal and its followers, it only means that the religion still maintains the ideal, and the followers still need it.

--G.K. Chesterton in The Illustrated London News, March 2, 1929

QUOTATION: The Essence of Christianity

Remember that the Christian life is one of action, not speech and daydreams.

--St.Vincent Pallotti

QUOTATION: Faith isn't Cheap

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness.

--Pope Francis, September 5, 2013, via Twitter

QUOTATION: Christianity and Intelligence

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity seems at first to be about morality, rules, guilt and virtue, yet it leads you out of that, into something beyond.

--C.S. Lewis