christianity quotes

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

C. S. Lewis

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

William Blake

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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

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Don't feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn't make you a Christian.

Unknown

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

Dwight L. Moody

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Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

Joel Osteen

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One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful 1 Thessalonians 5:16

Unknown

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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Christians are rare people on earth.

Martin Luther

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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

Denis Diderot

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A good example is far better than a good precept.

Dwight L. Moody

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

G. K. Chesterton

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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

C. S. Lewis

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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Thomas Kempis

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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

C. S. Lewis

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Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

John Lennon

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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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 A. Allen

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Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Wendell Phillips

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

Edmund Waller

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The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

John Piper

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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Francis of Assisi

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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

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Samuel Butler

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What year did Jesus think it was?

George Carlin

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All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

David Livingstone

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The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Charles L. Allen

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For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Dinesh D'Souza

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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Samuel Johnson

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

Unknown

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Martin Luther

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Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.

Carl F. H. Henry

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Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are.

Chris Lyons

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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

John Bunyan

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Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.

Unknown

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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

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

Novalis

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Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Patti Smith

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For GOD is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.

Anonymous

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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Billy Graham

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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Anne Lamott

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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Lionel Blue

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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Albert Camus

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The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Phillips Brooks

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

Israel Zangwill

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

C. T. Studd

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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

Evelyn Waugh

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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

Jermaine Jackson

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

John Lennon

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If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

Clement of Alexandria

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You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.

Martin Luther

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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

William Blake

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Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Dinesh D'Souza

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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Francis Schaeffer

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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.

R. A. Torrey

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Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Jesus, in Mark 11:24)

Anonymous

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Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

Charles Templeton

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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

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Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Dinesh D'Souza

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To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

Richard King

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Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Francis Schaeffer

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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

William Penn

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For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.

Michael Taylor

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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams

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Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Dinesh D'Souza

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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Ouida

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National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Martin Bormann

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Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

Camille Anna Paglia

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North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Jan Peter Balkenende

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Lucretia Mott

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Alan Moore

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Michael Servetus

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Billy Connolly

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

Simon Greenleaf

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Simon Greenleaf

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Phillips Brooks

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Dinesh D'Souza

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Martin Luther

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

Aly Khan

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

In Christian life, it

Steve Farrar

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.

Aly Khan

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

John Lennon

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Karen Armstrong

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