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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Christianity may well have succeeded even if Constantine had not converted.
The evils perpetuated by some professing branches of the Christian church have died hard.
It is a part of our Christian matrix, I believe this is who we are.
When others see our joy as Christians, they are contaminated.
I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can't take that away from me.
Scholarship is warmed with the holy flame of Christian zeal.
Arguably, the only fruit of the Crusades kept by the Christians was the apricot.
It is certain that these heathen put many of our Christians to shame by their good behavior.