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Christianity Quotes


"Christianity means a lot more than church membership."


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, 'Do you also want to leave me?' If we answer as PEter did, 'Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life,' our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible."



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


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


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



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


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



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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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



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


"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."


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



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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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



"Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."



"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."


"Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth."


"If you don't truly believe in Jesus Christ, fear will be your worst enemy at the End of the Age. The gift of the Holy Spirit is the gift of no fear. John 14:1-4."


"To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh."



"The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering."


"Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life."


"Jesus Christ died on the cross for everything you are afraid of."
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