Topic : Christianity

Rector says, “Religion is a social penicillin, lethal against a wide array of behavioral pathogens.” He cites a study of black inner-city youth by Harvard University’s Richard Freeman: Boys who regularly attend church are 50% less likely to commit crimes. They are 54% less likely to use drugs and 47% less likely to drop out of school. In Rector’s own studies, he finds that churchgoing boys and girls are two-thirds less likely to engage in teen sex. Regular church attendance halves the chances a woman will have a child out of wedlock.

“Religion Helps Underclass Overcome Many Problems,” by Walter E. Williams, Human Events, January 17, 1997, p. 9.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it’s been found difficult and not tried.

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Swindoll, Hand Me Another Brick, Thomas Nelson, 1978, p. 128.

• It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong;
• Not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich;
• Not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned;
• Not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.

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“While witnessing for Christ on the streets of a city in California, evangelist H.A. Ironside and his associates were often interrupted by questions from the crowd. “There are hundreds of religions in this country, and the followers of each sect think they’re right. How can poor plain people like us find out what really is the truth?”

Ironside and his friends would answer something like this: “Did I hear you say there are hundreds of religions? That’s strange; I’ve heard of only two. True, I find many shades of difference in the opinions of those comprising the two great schools. But after all, there are but two. The one covers all who expect salvation by doing; the other, all who have been saved by something done.”

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• “Religion Helps Underclass Overcome Many Problems”, by Walter E. Williams, Human Events, January 17, 1997, p. 9.