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Christians and Christianity QuotesFamous Christians and Christianity quotes by popular authors such as C. S. Lewis, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Mother Teresa, Daniel Webster, Benjamin Disraeli and others.
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[highlight-text]This is a Christian nation.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]His Christianity was muscular.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Christianity is a battle not a dream
Wendell Phillips
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[highlight-text]To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
William Penn
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[highlight-text]A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
A. W. Hare
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[highlight-text]Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Martin Luther
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[highlight-text]The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine
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[highlight-text]Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.
Alfred de Musset
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[highlight-text]Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Sir Matthew Hale
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[highlight-text]Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews
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[highlight-text]Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
William Jennings Bryan
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[highlight-text]The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maher
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[highlight-text]Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]Servant of God well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Michael Bruce
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[highlight-text]Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.
George Macdonald
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[highlight-text]Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]I desire no other evidence of the truth to Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.
Madame de Stael
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[highlight-text]Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]Onward Christian soldiers Marching as to war With the cross of Jesus Going on before.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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[highlight-text]Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn
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[highlight-text]If you go to church and like the singing better than the preaching that's not orthodox.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
Laurens Van der Post
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[highlight-text]In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]I like your Christ I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Lord Byron
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[highlight-text]What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Unlike Christianity which preached a peace that it never achieved Islam unashamedly came with a sword.
Stephen Runciman
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[highlight-text]The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[highlight-text]Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children they are all thirty feet tall.
Larry Wilde
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[highlight-text]The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
Matthew
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[highlight-text]It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Edward Gibbon
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[highlight-text]A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.
Thomas R. Ybarra
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[highlight-text]The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
Fulton J. Sheen
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[highlight-text]God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
George Macdonald
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[highlight-text]A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Say what you will about the Ten Commandments you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Unless Christianity is wholly false the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Christianity if false is of no importance and if true of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged its literary claims will I think be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me and since there is only one Jesus that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]Christianity with its doctrine of humility of forgiveness of love is incompatible with the state with its haughtiness its violence its punishment its wars.
Leo Tolstoy
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[highlight-text]Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich that is for all mankind except the poor.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says 'every one that asketh receiveth.'
Oswald Chambers
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[highlight-text]Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
Soren Kierkegaard
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[highlight-text]The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
Lynn Lavner
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[highlight-text]All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
Thomas a Kempis
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[highlight-text]'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve ' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.
William Ellery Channing
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[highlight-text]At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian with the Humanist sceptic after Voltaire and after Darwin the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility thankfulness and temperance is by Christian standards in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' 'No' said the priest 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why ' asked the Eskimo earnestly 'did you tell me?'
Annie Dillard
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[highlight-text]It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians; not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum prosperity and freedom of worship here.
Patrick Henry
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[highlight-text]They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tyson
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[highlight-text]Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon
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[highlight-text]The truth is of course that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion but on the contrary of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things are forbidden.
Gilbert K. Chesterton