Motivational Quotes

Christians and christianity

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

Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Christians and christianity

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

Waller, Edmund

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

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Halverson, Richard

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

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

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

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.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

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

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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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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Luther, Martin

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Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

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Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 art and not money. Money is its curse.

Blake, William

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A good example is far better than a good precept.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Christians are rare people on earth.

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

Noel, Roden

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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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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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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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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.

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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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