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
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
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
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
—Billy Graham (1918–91) American Baptist Religious Leader
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
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
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
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 provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
—Francis Schaeffer (1912–84) American Presbyterian Leader, Theologian, Philosopher
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.
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist
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.
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) American Poet
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
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
A good example is far better than a good precept.
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
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.
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
Don’t feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn’t make you a Christian.
—Unknown
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
—Novalis (1772–1801) German Romantic Poet, Novelist
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 Writer, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Author
Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
—Thomas a Kempis (1379–1471) German Religious Priest, 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
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
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.
—Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916) British Short Story Writer, Satirist, Historian
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
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I’ve met.
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan—spoiled.
—Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) English Playwright, Novelist, Zionist Activist
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
—Wendell Phillips (1811–84) American Abolitionist, Lawyer, Orator
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
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