To love, Christians must do as God does: not expect to be loved, but love “first.”
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:
"Christianity in Africa cannot remain a mere repetition of European Christianity."
I try to be a Christian. I don’t pray, really, because I don’t want to bore God.
What! are all true Christians priests? Yes. What! are women priests? Yes, women priests.
The command to a Christian couple is: "Grow in grace and love together."
Christian — One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
Each brotherly compassion that man hath on his fellow Christians, with charity, it is Christ in him.