Christianity Quotes

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.