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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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Nothing seems to have changed from those days, when Christian lives were more precious than the lives of the “infidels.”

Bruce Fein Armenian crime amnesia? (2007)

Using my platform to share my Christian faith is the most valuable use of my time and resources.

Pete Hegseth

For a Christian, what we call life is a preparation for what we call the “afterlife”, the other life.

Jean Guitton

Envy in a Christian is madness.

John of Kronstadt

Patrick... understood that, though Christianity was not inextricably wedded to Roman custom, it could not survive without Roman literacy.

Thomas Cahill How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)

Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

"Maybe this crime belongs to the history of Jewish superstitions," murmmured Lönnrot.
"Like Christianity," the editor put in.

Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones (1944)

We have, as a result of two thousand years of Christianity, sex on the brain. Which isn't always the best place for it.

Alan Watts

Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.

Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark (1968)

Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

John Hagee

Self-denial, the surrendering of immediate desires, is a prerequisite of the Christian life. This is noticeably absent in the gospel of Consumer Christianity.

Skye Jethani The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years.

Melvyn Bragg

As for the inter-religious relationships, especially between Muslims and Christians, I am not worried. In fact, I am very confident.

Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga

I don’t think I have the moral upbringing to act nude. I’m a Christian and I respect my body as the temple of God. I can’t do it for any price

Lilian Bach

I think the best example when you’re a Christian is the way you behave. It’s not what you say…

Karen Davila

There are clothes and manners of dress that are not Christian. There must always be a difference, in this regard, between us and the pagans.

Claude La Colombière

Here there are neither Russians nor English, Jews nor Christians, but only those who pursue one aim — to be able to be.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Stories that made Christianity powerful then, weaken it now.

Robert G. Ingersoll Orthodoxy (1884)

Our naming of Jesus Christ the Lord is not enough to prove us Christians, unless we also embrace that Faith which Christ hath published unto the World.

Richard Hooker Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

[Unitarianism is] a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.

Erasmus Darwin

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