Quotes about christians and christianity

"Christians are rare people on earth."

Luther, Martin on christians and christianity
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"The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on christians and christianity   

"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."

Maugham, W. Somerset on christians and christianity   

"A good example is far better than a good precept."

Moody, Dwight L. on christians and christianity   

"A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have."

Moody, Dwight L. on christians and christianity   

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."

Moody, Dwight L. on christians and christianity   

"Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded."

Moody, Dwight L. on christians and christianity   

"There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things."

Moody, Dwight L. on christians and christianity   

"He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it."

Munro, Hector Hugh on christians and christianity   

"Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity   

"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity
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"Christianity makes suffering contagious."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity
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"What if men take to following where He leads, weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?"

Noel, Roden on christians and christianity   

"Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men."

Novalis on christians and christianity   

"To be like Christ is to be a Christian."

Penn, William on christians and christianity
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"The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. To these men it is quite plainly the invasion of their lives by a new quality of life altogether. They do not hesitate to describe this as Christ living in them."

Phillips, James on christians and christianity   

"Christianity is a battle not a dream."

Phillips, Wendell on christians and christianity
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"Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it."

Pilgrim, Peace on christians and christianity
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"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime."

Poe, Edgar Allan on christians and christianity   

"Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life."

Schaeffer, Francis on christians and christianity   

"The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last."

Shaw, George Bernard on christians and christianity   

"Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again -- I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on christians and christianity   

"Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?"

Shoemaker, Samuel M. on christians and christianity
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"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady on christians and christianity   

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."

Studd, C. T. on christians and christianity
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"Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on christians and christianity   

"If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you."

Torrey, R. A. on christians and christianity
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"One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful [1 Thessalonians 5:16]"

Unknown, Source on christians and christianity   

"Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian."

Unknown, Source on christians and christianity
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"Don't feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn't make you a Christian."

Unknown, Source on christians and christianity
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"Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul."

Unknown, Source on christians and christianity   

"Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books."

Updike, John on christians and christianity   

"Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is someone who comes from Boston, A Christian is one who comes from Christ."

Walk, Don on christians and christianity   

"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."

Waller, Edmund on christians and christianity   

"The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing."

Weatherhead, Leslie on christians and christianity   

"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded."

Weil, Simone on christians and christianity   

"A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday."

Ybarra, Thomas on christians and christianity   

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled."

Zangwill, Israel on christians and christianity   

"“The single greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable”"

Manning, Brennan on christians and christianity   

"“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.”"

Ravenhill, Leonard on christians and christianity