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Christians and christianity

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

- Blake, William

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Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Blake, William

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Brown, Olympia

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

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

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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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

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God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Novalis

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Don't feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn't make you a Christian.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

Ybarra, Thomas

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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.

Torrey, R. A.

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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

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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

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A good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Waller, Edmund

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Graham, Billy

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I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.

Lindsell, Harold

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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Hough, Lynn Harold

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

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If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Halverson, Richard

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Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Camus, Albert