Top 100 Quotes About Christianity
#2. Today, many women of faith are conflicted. We are moving away from the church and formalized Christianity in record numbers because of the gap between patriarchal doctrine and our real lives.
Jennifer Crumpton
#3. If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
Malcolm X
#4. Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#6. From every point of view, therefore, the problem in question is the most serious concern of the Church. What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age?
J. Gresham Machen
#7. Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Arthur Keith
#9. Christianity is the best way to cure gayness - just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.
Stephen Colbert
#10. Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most
Voltaire
#11. The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
Margaret Thatcher
#12. The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#13. Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.
Robert Sheaffer
#14. It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
Peace Pilgrim
#16. Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.
Timothy Keller
#17. The origins of Judeo-Christianity are to be found in Egypt.
Michael Tsarion
#18. Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.
Mike Yaconelli
#19. I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.
Joe Lhota
#20. Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.
Christopher Hitchens
#21. Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
Bill Hybels
#22. Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
Benjamin Franklin
#23. To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.
Elisabeth Elliot
#24. What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects
with their Christianity latent.
C.S. Lewis
#25. What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.
Brad Thor
#26. His Christianity, so important to him personally, was also important professionally, for it enabled him to enter into fuller imaginative sympathy with the Middle Ages and Renaissance...and give spiritual substance to his life's work in those fields, so penetrated by Christian thought.
Jocelyn Gibb
#27. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
#28. Made no mistake: America is a Christian nation. The bedrock of our theo-democracy is our Judeo-Christian values. that term, by the way, is a bit of a misnomer. It implies that Christianity and Judaism are equal.
Stephen Colbert
#29. Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
George Washington
#30. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
George Gordon Byron
#31. I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
J.K. Rowling
#32. Every other religion and philosophy says you have to do something to connect to God; but Christianity says no, Jesus Christ came to do for you what you couldn't do for yourself.
Timothy Keller
#33. The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God ... Our religion is weak because our God is weak ... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#34. The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
Oswald Chambers
#35. America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Parker Palmer
#36. The bad preacher takes the ideas of our own age and tricks them out into the traditional language of Christianity. The core of his thought is merely contemporary; only the superficies is traditional. But your teaching must be timeless at its heart and wear modern dress.
C.S. Lewis
#37. I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing.
Joyce Meyer
#39. Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by any historical discovery. It is the solid foundation of Christianity.
Albert Schweitzer
#40. We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.
Hans Rookmaaker
#41. It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Lucretia Mott
#42. In addition to this, Acts explains how Christianity, although it is new, is in reality the one true religion, rooted in God's promises from the beginning of time.
Anonymous
#43. Christianity is not a spectator sport, it's something in which we become totally involved.
Billy Graham
#44. I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
Henry Clay
#45. The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
D. Elton Trueblood
#46. My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard
#47. Christianity is not an insurance policy against life's ills and troubles.
Billy Graham
#48. unless we recognize the radical nature of Christianity, which means shedding the imperatives of the secular world and taking with extreme seriousness the imperatives of God, we are kidding ourselves.
May Sarton
#49. The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...
Henrietta Szold
#50. I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
Lionel Blue
#51. Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.
Alain De Botton
#52. But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
Alan Hirsch
#53. I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.
R. Alan Woods
#54. Knowledge about Him will not do. Work for Him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with Him; otherwise, Christianity becomes a joyless burden.
John Piper
#55. They had a place where they belonged, and, even if it was because he didn't want to deal with their being different, he didn't treat them any differently. Which I think is a pretty successful implementation of Christianity.
Tina Fey
#56. My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
Chinua Achebe
#57. Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.
Frank J. Tipler
#58. Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
Philip Yancey
#59. Our Christianity loves its ease and comfort too well to take up anything so rough and heavy as a cross. And
Charles M. Sheldon
#60. For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.
Charles Spurgeon
#61. Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
Aly Khan
#62. If Christianity is going to mean anything at all for us now, then the humanity of God cannot be a half measure.
Christian Wiman
#63. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
George H. Smith
#64. ... Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon
#65. Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.
Rachel Held Evans
#66. Like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God ... the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.
Huston Smith
#67. The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor.
Bill Maher
#68. When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.
Roland H. Bainton
#69. Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
Henry Cloud
#70. I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
Anne Lamott
#71. If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.
Rich Mullins
#72. Christianity is not primarily a matter of externals, nevertheless it does find expression in conversation, habits, recreation, emphasis, and ambitions to be noted in our daily life.
Billy Graham
#73. The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity.
Gloria Furman
#74. I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
Bill Gates
#75. Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
Will Durant
#76. Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.
Tucker Carlson
#77. Christianity is word-centered because God rules through his gospel word.
Tim Chester
#78. Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#79. When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the scene of internal dissensions, and a local arbiter in consequence would be wanted. Christians
John Henry Newman
#80. Christianity is constantly in danger of being hijacked by people who act out in hatred - by people who will not even hear the cries of their victims, let alone own up to their guilt.
Christina Engela
#81. The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of Christianity lay all across the Constitution.
Theodore H. White
#82. Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
Cal Thomas
#83. Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God.
Sun Myung Moon
#84. To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
Vance Havner
#85. I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!
Mary Daly
#86. If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.
Mother Angelica
#87. I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.
Nancy Pearcey
#88. In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.
Alexander Schmemann
#89. I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#90. A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.
C.S. Lewis
#91. Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks
#92. A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.
Paul Washer
#93. A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.
J.C. Ryle
#94. I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.
Charles Spurgeon
#95. Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
William Ralph Inge
#96. If our Christianity doesn't work at home, it doesn't work.
Alistair Begg
#97. As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.
Rick Scarborough
#98. Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.
Steven Furtick
#99. It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.
Leo Tolstoy
#100. You might say that when two Christians are following Christ together there is not twice as much Christianity as when they are apart, but sixteen times as much.
C.S. Lewis
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