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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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Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought
The better fight.

John Milton

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

Colin Wilson The Occult: A History (1971)

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it's me!

George Carlin A Place for My Stuff (1981)

The Cross!
There, and there only (though the deist rave,
And atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave);
There and there only, is the power to save.

William Cowper The Progress of Error (1792)

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Spaniards in Mexico and Peru used to baptize Indian infants and then immediately dash their brains out: by this means they secured these infants went to Heaven.

Bertrand Russell

Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.

Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

To accept the historicity of Jesus one must have independent historical evidence, but this evidence is not forthcoming.

Michael Lou Martin

So far as I can remember, there's not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.

Jesus

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Jesus

How can we admit that the divine became an embryo, and that after its birth, it was wrapped in swaddling clothes, covered with blood, bile, and even worse things?

Porphyry

Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord
In their sweet bosoms.

William Shakespeare Henry V (1599)

O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others.

William Shakespeare

"If you don't worship me you will burn forever." I always thought that was ugly.

Gore Vidal

My aim in that was, to justify the character of Jesus against the fictions of his pseudo-followers, which have exposed him to the inference of being an impostor.

Thomas Jefferson

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved — the Cross.

John Adams

Oppressed and oppressors cannot possibly mean the same thing when they speak of God. The God of the oppressed is a God of revolution who breaks the chains of slavery. The oppressors' God is a God of slavery and must be destroyed along with the oppressors.

James H. Cone A Black Theology of Liberation (1970)

Christianity has both spurred and retarded the sciences and social sciences. Indeed, most of the modern debates of profound significance were originally dialogues with or within Christianity.

Geoffrey Blainey A Short History of Christianity (2011)

A woman should learn in silence with full submission. I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to be silent.

Paul of Tarsus

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