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Christians and christianity

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.

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

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

Hough, Lynn Harold

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.

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

Camus, Albert

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

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.

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

Novalis

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

Blake, William

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

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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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Penn, William

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

Zangwill, Israel

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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 glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

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Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Kempis, Thomas

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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

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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 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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Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?

Cook, Robert A.

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

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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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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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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 the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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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