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Christianity Quotes


"In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two."


"The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media's insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn't as deceived as the masses who really swallow the garbage. Ignorance is ultimately how people put themselves down, and the mere Christian who knows what entails the mere Christian is ultimately free from such."


"Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool."


"At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar."


"We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great."


"Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit."


"Christianity means a lot more than church membership."


"The task of all Christian scholarship-not just biblical studies-is to study reality as a manifestation of God's glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God's glory is not scholarship but insurrection."



"No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true."


"To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity."


"I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend."


"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."


"What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself."


"We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity."


"Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least."


"We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ."


"The essential point of view of Christianity is sin."


"It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity."


"The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians."


"Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched."


"Christianity made us think there's one heaven."


"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical."


"Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race."


"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."


"In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity."


"A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all."


"It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion."


"My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church."



"The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of."


"I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity."


"Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?"


"I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity."


"Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity."


"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."


"Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others."


"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."


"The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs."


"Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity."


"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."


"I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things."


"The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we certainly come under judgement, but that the redeemer and the judge are the same."
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