Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
Is your Christianity ancient history—or current events?
—Sam Shoemaker (1893–1963) American Episcopal Priest
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
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.
—William Faulkner (1897–1962) American Novelist
Pity makes suffering contagious.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
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.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Poet, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist
Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.
—Unknown
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
God doesn’t have any grandchildren.
—E. Stanley Jones (1884–1973) American Methodist Priest, Theologian
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
Christians are rare people on earth.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
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.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
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.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–59) English Historian, Essayist, Philanthropist
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
—Billy Graham (1918–91) American Baptist Religious Leader
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.
—Billy Graham (1918–91) American Baptist Religious Leader
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.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
—Novalis (1772–1801) German Romantic Poet, Novelist
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Don’t feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn’t make you a Christian.
—Unknown
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
—Francis Schaeffer (1912–84) American Presbyterian Religious Leader, Theologian, Philosopher
Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
—Thomas a Kempis (1379–1471) German Religious Priest, Writer
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.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
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.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
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.
—John Lennon (1940–80) British Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Activist
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.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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