Motivational Quotes

Christians and christianity

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

- Waller, Edmund

Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Christians and christianity

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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

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

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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 good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Blake, William

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

Hough, Lynn Harold

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

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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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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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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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God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Novalis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Camus, Albert

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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Graham, Billy

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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 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