Oscar Wilde Quotes About Christ

• How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

• Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Doubt, Facts

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

• Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, College, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.231, Wordsworth Editions

• Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Passion, Self

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions

• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break
  And peace of pardon win!
  How else may man make straight his plan
  And cleanse his soul from Sin?
  How else but through a broken heart
  May Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Winning, Men

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

• Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,
  For I am drowning in a stormier sea
  Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

  Oscar Wilde

  Jesus, Prayer, Lakes

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

• Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Men, Bars

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

• In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hero, Firsts, Christ

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Ein Granatapfelhaus”, p.103, marixverlag

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