Christianity Quotes

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song of rejoicing softens hard hearts. It makes tears of godly sorrow flow from them. Singing summons the Holy Spirit. Happy praises offered in simplicity and love lead the faithful to complete harmony, without discord. Don't stop singing.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Song, Fall, Heart

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• The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

  Charles Peguy

  Heart, Saint, Matter

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry". Book by Charles Péguy. "Un Nouveau théologien" (1911), 1943.

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• In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.

  John of Damascus

  Men, Body, Flesh

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• Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Kindness, Soul, Might

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• We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.

  Justin Martyr

  Body, Earth, Impossible

  Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religion, Looks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.223, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Son, Sunday

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

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• What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.66, Friederich Nietzsche

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• We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

  Saint Basil

  Faith, Christian Life, Found

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• Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe ... The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigor with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Country, Islamic, Europe

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• The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Humility, Opposites

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• Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Believe, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.86, U of Nebraska Press

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• I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Past, Greatness

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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• Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jesus, Heaven, Doctrine

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Facts, Myth

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Mean, Practice

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• Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Law, Unity

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• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Teacher, Historical, Mouths

  Immanuel Kant (1960). “Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone”

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• Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Flower, Odor

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Sometimes, Excuse

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.41

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• Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Christian, Dog

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• People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Thinking, People

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