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Christians and christianity

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

- Zangwill, Israel

Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

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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

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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 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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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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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Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

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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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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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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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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

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

Novalis

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

Hough, Lynn Harold

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

Noel, Roden

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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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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Luther, Martin

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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Waller, Edmund

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Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Kempis, Thomas

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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