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Christians and christianity

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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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.

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

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.

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

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

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Penn, William

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Zangwill, Israel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Waller, Edmund

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Blake, William

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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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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Noel, Roden

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

Novalis

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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 is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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 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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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