Quotes on Christianity

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.

Author: Willie Aames

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

Author: Stephen Baldwin

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

Author: Lionel Blue

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.

Author: Lionel Blue

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.

Author: Lionel Blue

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

Author: Lionel Blue

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

Author: Lionel Blue

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Author: Frank Borman

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Author: Martin Bormann

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Author: Georg Brandes

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.

Author: Olympia Brown

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Author: Lord Byron

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.

Author: George Carey

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Author: Stuart Chase

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

Author: Christopher Dawson

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Author: Havelock Ellis

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

Author: Richard Gallienne

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Author: Barry Goldwater

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.

Author: Lee Greenwood

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

Author: Matthew Hale

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Author: William Hazlitt

No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.

Author: Frederick Hedge

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

Author: Charles Houston

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

Author: Muhammed Iqbal

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.

Author: Jermaine Jackson

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

Author: Arthur Keith

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.

Author: Aly Khan

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

Author: Ted Lange

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

Author: Kenneth Latourette

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

Author: John Lennon

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.

Author: John Lennon

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

Author: John Lennon

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Author: C. Lewis

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.

Author: C. Lewis

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

Author: Joseph Lister

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

Author: John Machen

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Author: Josh McDowell

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Author: Lucretia Mott

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Author: Michael Novak

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

Author: Carl Olson

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

Author: Orson Pratt

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

Author: Timothy Radcliffe

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

Author: Timothy Radcliffe

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Author: Paul Ricoeur

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Author: Paul Ricoeur

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Author: Bridget Riley

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

Author: Frederick Robertson

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

Author: Francis Schaeffer

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

Author: Karl Schlegel

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Author: Karl Schlegel

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.

Author: Jack Schwartz

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.

Author: Pete Seeger

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

Author: Michael Servetus

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Author: Patti Smith

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Author: Julius Streicher

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Author: Billy Sunday

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

Author: Charles Templeton

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

Author: Randall Terry

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Author: D. Trueblood

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Author: Gerald Vann

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

Author: George Whitefield

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.

Author: George Whitefield

Christianity is part of the common law.

Author: James Wilson