Christianity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
-- Adolf Hitler -
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
-- Adoniram Judson -
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
-- Adrian Rogers -
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.
-- Albert Mohler -
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
-- Aldous Huxley -
In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.
-- Alexander Schmemann -
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.
-- Alistair Begg -
If our Christianity doesn’t work at home, it doesn’t work.
-- Alistair Begg -
Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.
-- Andrew Bonar -
When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.
-- Ann Coulter -
This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.
-- Ann Coulter -
I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".
-- Anne Askew -
The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.
-- Armistead Maupin -
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
-- Arthur Keith -
Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
-- Augustus Hare -
Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation
-- Barack Obama -
We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.
-- Barack Obama -
I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
-- Barack Obama -
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
-- Barack Obama -
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission.
-- Ben F. Meyer -
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
-- Bertrand Russell -
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
-- Bill Haywood -
Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
-- Bill Hybels -
Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.
-- Billy Graham -
Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.
-- Billy Graham -
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
-- Billy Sunday -
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer
-- Bridget Riley -
There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
-- Brother Lawrence -
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.
-- Bryan Fischer -
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
-- C. S. Lewis -
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
-- Catherine Booth -
Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.
-- Catherine of Genoa -
Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.
-- Charles Colson -
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
-- Charles Darwin -
Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns
-- Charles Simeon -
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
-- Charles Studd -
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
-- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor -
Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.
-- Charlotte Bingham -
Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.
-- Charlotte Mary Yonge -
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
-- Chinua Achebe -
In Christianity, nobody wins until everybody crosses the line.
-- Christine Caine -
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.
-- Cyril of Jerusalem -
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
-- D. Elton Trueblood -
The Lord help me to press after God forever
-- David Brainerd -
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
-- David Brainerd -
Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.
-- David Brainerd -
It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.
-- David Bryant -
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
-- David Bryant -
God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.
-- David Bryant -
But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
-- David Javerbaum -
I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.
-- David Livingstone -
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
-- David Platt -
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
-- David Platt -
I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.
-- Dee Snider -
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.
-- Diana Butler Bass -
Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,
-- Diana Vreeland -
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.
-- Don Cupitt -
Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.
-- Edward Gibbon -
Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.
-- Edward Schillebeeckx -
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
