Christianity Quotes - Page 27

• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Graves, Admiring, Agnosticism

  1935 Religion and Literature.

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• No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

  Marya Mannes

  Faith, Christian, Men

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• The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Art, Secret

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• Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Sweet, Heart

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Religious, Science

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• Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

  Vikram Seth

  Faith, Backbone, Wishbones

  Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.78, Penguin Books India

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• One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.

  Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

  Faith, Together, Ifs

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• God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Order, People

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.590, Ravenio Books

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• Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Becoming, Spirit

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• God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

  David Hume

  Faith, Wise, Spirit

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• Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

  Paul Tournier

  Faith, Adventure, Surrender

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• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Becoming

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• God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

  Henrietta Mears

  Faith, Grows

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• The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

  W. H. Auden

  Faith, Believe, Unique

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• Man is at his tallest when he bows.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Men, Bows

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• I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Ends, Made

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• How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Faith, Country, Flower

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• To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

  Christina Rossetti

  Faith, Teaching, Thinking

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• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Faith, Book

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• I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

  Christina Rossetti

  Faith, Believe, Doe

  Christina Georgina Rossetti (1970). “The poetical works: With memoir and notes &c”

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• For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Years, Two

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• If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity.

  Malcolm X

  Hands, America, Mind

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, God, Religious

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.93

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• [The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Bible, God, Religious

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• I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Views, People

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