Motivational Quotes

Christians and christianity

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Christians and christianity

What if men take to following where He leads, weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?

Noel, Roden

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Waller, Edmund

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

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.

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

Byron, Lord

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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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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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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The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

Weatherhead, Leslie

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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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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.

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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.

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Novalis

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

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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Kempis, Thomas

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Penn, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is someone who comes from Boston, A Christian is one who comes from Christ.

Walk, Don

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

Hough, Lynn Harold

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

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

Blake, William

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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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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

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

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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

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

Giovanni, Nikki