American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.
A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.
[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.
I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .
All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
