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:
It is almost as much the duty of a Christian to be loved as to love.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.
What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.
By no means are we at the mercy of those who doubt or deny that Jesus ever lived.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion has even a single point of contact with reality.
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.