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.