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Christians and christianity

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

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Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

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Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

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

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 good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

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.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Penn, William

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

Zangwill, Israel

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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Noel, Roden

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

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Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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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 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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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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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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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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.

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

Hough, Lynn Harold

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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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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.