~ Christians and Christianity Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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