Motivational Quotes

Christians and christianity

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

- Byron, Lord

Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Christians and christianity

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Faulkner, William

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

Arnold, Matthew

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity.

Lennon, John

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

Butler, Samuel

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

Butler, Samuel

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again -- I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Kipling, Rudyard

10.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Camus, Albert

11.

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Weil, Simone

12.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Munro, Hector Hugh

13.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

14.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Studd, C. T.

16.

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

Updike, John

17.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Hough, Lynn Harold

18.

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

King, Florence

19.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

Baldwin, James

20.

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Schaeffer, Francis

21.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Allen, Fred A.

24.

Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.

25.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Moody, Dwight L.

26.

One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful [1 Thessalonians 5:16]

27.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

29.

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Luther, Martin

30.

Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!

Hawkins, O. S.

31.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled.

Zangwill, Israel

32.

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Halverson, Richard

33.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Penn, William

37.

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

38.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Waller, Edmund

40.

The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. To these men it is quite plainly the invasion of their lives by a new quality of life altogether. They do not hesitate to describe this as Christ living in them.

Phillips, James

41.

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

42.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

43.

Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

44.

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

Novalis

45.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Graham, Billy

46.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?

Cook, Robert A.

48.

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Henry, Patrick

50.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.

Tolstoy, Count Leo