Christianity Quotes - Page 24

• You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Christian

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• Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

  Stuart Chase

  Freedom, Democracy, Said

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• Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Falling In Love, Sight

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.222, 谷月社

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• If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Country, Teaching

  "Patriotism or Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

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• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Peace, Strong

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• The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Peace, Giving, Church

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• I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

  George Santayana

  War, Passion, Ambition

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.272, Рипол Классик

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• The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Civilization, Religion, Atheism

  Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893). “Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate”

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• The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Taken, Race, Opposites

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

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• I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Animal, Men

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• Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Hate, Religion

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• I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Religious, Prayer

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• Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Jobs, Humanity

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.2, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position ­ that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, People, Religion

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• If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

  George MacDonald

  Religion, Different, Would Be

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• After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

  Steven Pinker

  Fate, Sacrifice, Men

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Integrity, Mean, Leaving

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.598, Psychology Press

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• I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, Religion, Would Be

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• It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

  George William Curtis

  Christmas, Sunshine, June

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• ...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

  David Friedrich Strauss

  Easter, Real, Heart

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• I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Fun

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Doe, Honest

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• The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.

  Noah Webster

  4th Of July, Government, Law

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