Quotes about christians and christianity

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

Allen, Fred A. on christians and christianity
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"Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power."

Arnold, Matthew on christians and christianity   

"Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels."

Baldwin, James on christians and christianity   

"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better."

Beecher, Henry Ward on christians and christianity   

"The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world."

Beecher, Henry Ward on christians and christianity   

"Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse."

Blake, William on christians and christianity   

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

Blake, William on christians and christianity
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"Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on christians and christianity   

"How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity."

Brown, Olympia on christians and christianity   

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."

Butler, Samuel on christians and christianity   

"If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s."

Butler, Samuel on christians and christianity   

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

Byron, Lord on christians and christianity   

"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."

Caen, Herb on christians and christianity   

"What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians."

Camus, Albert on christians and christianity   

"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on christians and christianity   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on christians and christianity
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"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on christians and christianity
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"The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?"

Cook, Robert A. on christians and christianity   

"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."

Disraeli, Benjamin on christians and christianity   

"No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."

Faulkner, William on christians and christianity   

"If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."

Gandhi, Mahatma on christians and christianity
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"White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus."

Giovanni, Nikki on christians and christianity   

"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on christians and christianity   

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

Graham, Billy on christians and christianity
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"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."

Graham, Billy on christians and christianity   

"Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself."

Halverson, Richard on christians and christianity
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"Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!"

Hawkins, O. S. on christians and christianity   

"I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion."

Henry, Patrick on christians and christianity   

"The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing."

Hough, Lynn Harold on christians and christianity   

"It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us."

Hough, Lynn Harold on christians and christianity   

"Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity."

Johnson, Samuel on christians and christianity   

"God doesn't have any grandchildren."

Jones, Eli Stanley on christians and christianity   

"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Kempis, Thomas on christians and christianity
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"Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America."

King, Florence on christians and christianity
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"The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities."

Kipling, Rudyard on christians and christianity   

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity."

Lennon, John on christians and christianity   

"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on christians and christianity   

"Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world."

Lindsell, Harold on christians and christianity   

"Christian life consists of faith and charity."

Luther, Martin on christians and christianity