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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.

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All revolutions are doctrinal — such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity.

G. K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

Whenever a nation is converted to Christianity, its Christianity, in practice, must be largely converted to paganism.

George Santayana Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913)

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

Hillary Clinton

About the scientific revolution: it “outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes”.

Herbert Butterfield

Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.

Billy Graham

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

Edwina Currie

Good Christian People, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die.

Anne Boleyn

First and foremost, I am a Christian.

Nick Fuentes

Nobody has done more for Christianity or for evangelicals — or for religion itself — than I have.

Donald Trump

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Erasmus Erasmus of Rotterdam‎ (1934)

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

Preston Manning The New Canada (1992)

When Christianity came into the world the task was simply to proclaim Christianity. The same is the case wherever Christianity is introduced into a country the religion of which is not Christianity.

Søren Kierkegaard Attack upon Christendom (1855)

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Charles Péguy Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

Barbara Tuchman A Distant Mirror (1978)

The medicine of Sushruta is considerably older than the ninth century; and the grammar of Panini probably precedes Christianity.

Pāṇini

You are Christian; if you adopted my religion I would think you a scoundrel.

Narai

But whatever lives or dies, business must be attended to; and the principal business of good Christians is, beyond all controversy, to fight with one another.

R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1869)

If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.

Sam Harris

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

Barry Goldwater

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man."

Joseph Goebbels Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

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