Christianity Quotes
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.
Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.
Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.
For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.
The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.
Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.
It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?
Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.
Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.