Top 29 Quotes About Violence Christian
#1. Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.
Pope Francis
#3. What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
#4. As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian life cannot take part in deeds of violence. Of what value then to him are arguments about the imaginary advantages of doing what is morally impossible for him to do?
Leo Tolstoy
#5. The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.
Pope Francis
#6. I'm white and everything is made for me." A black female student said, "I'm straight. I can hold hands with my boyfriend without fearing violence." Another student said, "I'm a Christian. I can wear my cross necklace to school and no one calls me a terrorist." A
Brene Brown
#7. Apologies often cannot undo pain; but they can acknowledge it. And part of the cruelty of bullying is that the bruises it leaves are on the inside - it's a hidden form of violence, shrouded by shame.
Mathew N. Schmalz
#8. It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and stark violence of the cross that discloses the living Christ. Revelation, like creation, arises not merely out of nothingness but by means of it.
Christian Wiman
#9. Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.
Amy Waldman
#10. In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
Gunter Blobel
#11. It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
Randy Alcorn
#12. I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.
Erik Christian Haugaard
#13. The Christian is not to be disturbed by the
chaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man's sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: The Bible is true.
Billy Graham
#14. We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
Hans Jonas
#15. I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.
Newt Gingrich
#16. I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian
who cannot deal with it by violence
must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims.
Jacques Ellul
#17. Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.
Stanley Hauerwas
#18. Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War.
Stephen V Monsma
#19. Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.
Oscar Romero
#20. Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.
Clement Of Alexandria
#21. Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.
Camille Paglia
#22. The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
Claudia Christian
#25. Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church - and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.
Yann Martel
#26. A golden heart, a dioamond soul, a silver lining attitude and a titanium will power is the finest and the only jewellery I wear.
Shahla Khan
#27. I think it's nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.
Gina McKee
#28. Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. The Deuteronomists had made violence an option in the Judeo-Christian religion. It would always be possible to make these scriptures endorse intolerant policies.
Karen Armstrong
