Julius Hawley Seelye Quotes

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Christ is dead and his teachings moribund.

Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.