Christianity Quotes

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

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.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

This is a Christian nation.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.