Christianity Quotes - Page 20

• They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

  Billy Sunday

  Religion, Doe, Baths

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Common Sense, Religion

  'Thoughts on Religion' (1765)

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• People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

  Eddie Vedder

  Religious, Growing Up, Animal

  "Pearl Jam: 'People get that this means something'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2009.

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• First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

  Barbara Walters

  Christian, Religion, Literature

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• That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

  Rick Warren

  Differences, Grace, Done

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• Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

  George Washington

  Heaven, Church, Liable

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.262

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• Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

  George Whitefield

  Religious, Together, Decay

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.48, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Shining, Mind

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• In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Know Yourself, Come Up

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.109, HarperCollins UK

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• ....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jesus, Essence

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

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• The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Men, Brave

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

  Tom Robbins

  Queens, Muse, Goddess

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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• The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, War, Judgement

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.95, Fig

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• Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Doubt, Mind, Doctrine

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

  Tom Holt

  Nice, Sick, Support

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• Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

  John Wesley

  Character, Religion, Vices

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• In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Horse, Children, Hobbies

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Mother Nature

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

  Yann Martel

  Essence, Age, Right Now

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.63, Vintage Canada

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• It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Christian, Balance, Firsts

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• Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Joy, Lines

  Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”

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• Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Perfect, Actors

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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