Christianity Quotes

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any real doubt that it's true.

Learning about the intellectual basis for Christianity bolsters the faith of Christians-espe cially those who may be experiencing doubts-and prepares them to share Christ with others.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

I think fundamentally, the question of whether or not Christianity makes sense - whether it withstands scrutiny, whether the evidence supports it or hurts it - always comes down to the Resurrection.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that "religions" are not "all the same."

Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.