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:
No suffering can be foreign to a Christian, not even the anguish that comes with the loss of God.
The gift of life is the highest good; we are convinced of that as Christians.
Christian piety annihilates the egotism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is – nor yet so good a Christian.
Christianity, as we came to know it, is Paul and Paul is Christianity.
There is nothing worth living for but Christian Architecture and a boat.
It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.