Samuel Johnson Quotes About Christianity

• Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perfection, Humanity, Religion

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.269, Princeton University Press

• As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Christian, Strong, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.526

• The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sacrifice, Doctrine, Peculiar

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.92

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