There is in every village a torch: The schoolteacher. And an extinguisher: The priest.
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:
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded.
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?