Christian life consists of faith and charity.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) American Social Reformer
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man, as a civilized being, can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer
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.
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
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
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.
—Fred Allen (1894–1956) American Comedian, Radio Personality
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
—Henry Drummond
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Novelist
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
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
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.
—Max Muller (1823–1900) German-Born British Philologist, Orientalist
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American Baptist Minister
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
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
—Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Italian Monk, Founder of the Franciscan Order
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality.—It builds ethics on religion.
—Austin Phelps (1820–90) American Clergyman, Author, Professor
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
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
—Harold Kushner (1935–2023) American Rabbi, Author
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
—Samuel Butler
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 Writer, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Author
Christianity proves itself, as the sun is seen by its own light.—Its evidence is involved in its excellence.
—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
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
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
—Billy Graham (1918–91) American Baptist Religious Leader
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Novelist
Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything, our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
—John Calvin (1509–64) French Theologian, Reformer
We cannot love God unless we love each other. We know him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet, and life is a banquet too – even with a crust – where there is companionship. We have all known loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community.
—Dorothy Day (1897–1980) American Journalist, Christian Activist
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