Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
Christianity Quotes
Jesus has the most entries, then Jefferson, Shakespeare, Augustine and C. S. Lewis. Critics get space too: Bertrand Russell in 1932 says Christianity gives reasons for not fearing death and so fails to teach the virtue of courage, and Shaw’s Saint Joan (1923) asks whether a Christ must perish in every age. Disraeli’s Endymion (1880) has the shortest line on the page: his Christianity was muscular.
Gandhi’s “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians” is disputed, and the notes bring in the missionary E. Stanley Jones, who is said to have asked him a similar question. A line about the last stone of the last church, credited to Émile Zola, is traced to a Soviet popular-science book of 1959. The third disputed entry is an anti-Christian remark credited to Hitler.
Most quoted on christianity:
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.
Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.
You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
The Father willed that these two, the God Christ and the Church, should be one man.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
I'm gonna look twice at you
until I see the Christ in you when I'm lookin through the eyes of love..
I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.