Christianity Quotes

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Christianity is part of the common law.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.