Christianize Quotes

#1. I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#2. The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Edward Abbey

#3. To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts. We are asking God to give us what we want, so we can feel better about ourselves or so we can have more happiness, not holiness, in our lives.

Edward T. Welch

#4. Prunesquallor, as urbane as ever, had nevertheless something in his fish-like eyes that might almost be described as determination. One glance at his sister was sufficient to make him realize that to attempt to reason with her would be about as fruitful as to try to christianize a vulture.

Mervyn Peake

#5. If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren't they taught to read the Bible for themselves?

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.

Noam Chomsky

#7. A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

Richard Corliss

#8. Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. At the airport if you refuse to be patted down, they arrest you. And what's the first thing they do when they arrest you? They pat you down.

Jay Leno

#10. I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

Jane Austen

#11. Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?

Edge

#12. We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Jim Rohn

#13. I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

Norman Hartnell

#14. Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

Deborah Harkness

#15. You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Henry Edward Manning

#16. My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

Kerry Greenwood