Motivational Quotes

Christians and christianity

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Christians and christianity

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

10.

Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

11.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Penn, William

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

18.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

20.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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.

22.

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

Noel, Roden

23.

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

24.

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

Hough, Lynn Harold

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

27.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

28.

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

Zangwill, Israel

29.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

30.

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

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Graham, Billy

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Schaeffer, Francis

41.

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

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

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.

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

Novalis

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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