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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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"I'm saying that a lot of Christians want to be recognized for their godliness, and a lot of people mistake the recognition for godliness itself."

Don Miller Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)

I began to compromise my Christian values — partying and dating guys who weren't Christians.

Donna Rice

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,...

Preston Manning The New Canada (1992)

I just knew I could not trust my sexuality to behave as a Christian priest should, And I didn't want to be a cause of scandal.

Mark Tully

"The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death"

Irenaeus

Christianity has always striven on the myth of persecution, which in turn bred "martyrs" and saints, indispensable to the propagation of Christianity.

François Gautier

Be alert to detect those who use "Social Christianity" to cover up the fact that they are not Christians at all.

W. Cleon Skousen The Naked Communist (1958)

Christian theism might in the future not conceive God as a Person or indeed as a Trinity of persons.

Leslie Dewart

It may be affirmed without exaggeration that a just and unprejudiced estimate of Judaism is found nowhere in modern Christian writings.

Kaufmann Kohler The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)

You cannot be a Christian in isolation, the gospel makes that clear, what we're called to is communion, we are called to live as the body of Christ.

Kieran Thomas Conry

I think Rome is famous for the Roman Empire and for the Renaissance, but this bit -- the history of early Christianity -- is really worth exploring too.

Sally Axworthy

Christianity is a revolutionary religion or it is nothing.

Sidney Dark

The situation of women and the nature of Christianity in Africa are both shaped by histories and culture that are molding contemporary Africa.

Rosemary Edet

Catholic Christianity had come to be a kind of Christian Shinto, a tradition of ancestral piety dressed in Christian clothes.

Henry Falconer Barclay Mackay

Therefore, a good Christian should beware that mathematicians, and any others who prophesy impiously... may be entangled in the companionship of demons.

Augustine of Hippo

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

Charles Spurgeon The Soul-Winner (1895)

M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Christian! hence learn to do thy part,
And leave the rest to Heaven.

John Henry Newman

I think, therefore I am … not a Christian.

Karlheinz Deschner

The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith.

Justin Martyr

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