Christianity Quotes - Page 8

• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• If you're praying, you're not worrying, and if you're worrying, you're not praying!

  Ruffin McNeill

  Christian, Prayer, Worry

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• The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

  Lionel Blue

  Christmas, Christian, Jesus

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• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, People, Atheism

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

  Billy Connolly

  Religion, Islam, Different

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• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Live Life, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Drinking, Two

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Fear, Reality

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

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• There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, People, Want

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• Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

  Novalis

  Christian, Men, Rights

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• Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

  Billy Sunday

  Mean, Church, Membership

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Church, Devil

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Sensual, Triumph

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Atheist, Looks

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1932, Library of America

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• The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Clergy, Religious Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.427

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• We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Order, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.139

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• If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

  Barack Obama

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

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• No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Religious, Choices

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• In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Philosophical, Christ On The Cross

  The Antichrist aphorism 39 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

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• The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Love, God, Lying

  Geerhardus Vos (2005). “The Letters of Geerhardus Vos”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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• The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

  Shane Claiborne

  God, Christian, Stars

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.197, Harper Collins

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• The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Jesus, Law

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.264, Hartland Publications

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• The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

  Thomas Chalmers

  Beauty, Christian, Religious

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• From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Book, Reading

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