Christianity Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.
Anonymous
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love.
Clarence Jordan
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abraham Lincoln
Never underestimate Jesus, because He will just prove you wrong.
Brian Gurney
The word ”Christianity” is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
Voltaire
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons – marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.
C.S. Lewis
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
Augustine of Hippo
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We must get back to a very strong Christianity… Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
George Carey
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. Murrow
In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
William Booth
Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer.
Ed Cole
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can’t blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That’s my message.
Moustapha Akkad
The Christian glories in the death of a pagan because thereby Christ himself is glorified.
St Bernard
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.
Robin Tyler
Fundamentalism isn’t about religion. It’s about power.
Salman Rushdie
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Bible: Galatians
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare
The safest place to be is within the will of God.
Anonymous
If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas Carlyle
My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
Abraham Lincoln
“Top Ten List: Why Elvis Will Replace Jesus”
Anonymous
Next to Christianity, advertising is the greatest force in the world. And I say that without sacrilege or disrespect. Advertising makes people discontented. It makes them want things they don’t have. Without discontent, there is no progress, no achievement.
Anonymous
With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
Francis Arinze
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated – into vice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…. For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!
Frederick Douglass
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