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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If there’s something we should really compete for as Christians, it should be for souls - it assures an eternal non-perishable reward.

Nii Okai

Christian mythology is made up partly from the ancient mythology and partly from the Jewish traditions.

Thomas Paine

What a dangerous objection it would be against Christianity, therefore, if paganism had a definition of sin which Christianity had to acknowledge was correct.

Søren Kierkegaard The Sickness unto Death (1849)

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

G. K. Chesterton

I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein Culture and Value (1980)