George MacDonald Quotes

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

They which divide in Religion, divide in God; they who divide in him, divide beyond Genus Generalissimum, where there is no reconciliation, without atonement -- that is, without uniting in him, who is One, and in his Truth, which is also one.

Let us get rid of these devilish words, these names of party, of faction, of sedition—Lutheran, Huguenot, Papist—let us keep unadulterated the name of Christian.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

It doesn't matter whether you believe in Christ, Moses, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, or any other being or master. Each one of us has our own beliefs, our own point of view. There are billions of different points of view, but it's the same force of life behind each one of us.

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.