Christianity Quotes - Page 29

• God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.

  Rene Descartes

  World

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• Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Virtue, Mercy, Orthodox

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• Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Lord, Holy

  Martin Luther (1948). “The Martin Luther Christmas Book”

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• It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Order, Roots

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• I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

  David Livingstone

  Willing

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• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Order, Doe

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold - let us call on the Lord. He will come to warm our hearts with perfect love, not only for Him but also for our neighbor, and the cold of him who hates the good will flee before the heat of His countenance.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Hate, Heart

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• As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Fire, Snow

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• We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.

  John Owen

  Hands, Giving, May

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.84

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• During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.

  Bernard Lewis

  Memories, Writing, Government

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• Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

  Mark Ryan

  Faith, Christian, Decision

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• Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Common Sense, Sound, Reason

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• What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly.

  Mongkut

  Believe, Silly, Teach

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• Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Self, Temptation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Islam, Assuming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.96, Friederich Nietzsche

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• Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Two, Alcohol

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.393, Penguin

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• Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Air, Church

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• It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heartfelt, Essentials, Firsts

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• Christianity is religion for the executioner.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Executioners

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.44, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Two, People

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Perfect, Change For The Better

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17”, p.145, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Cost, Followers, May

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• If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Life, Christian, Lips

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• People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  One Direction, People, Three

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• No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Play, Want

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