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Christianity Quotes - Page 17

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

C. S. Lewis
Religion, Christianity, Know Yourself
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.109, HarperCollins UK

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

C. S. Lewis
Jesus, Liars, Christianity

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Bill Vaughan
Christianity, Convincing

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell
Failing, Christianity, Virtue
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.34, Routledge

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli
Religion, Christianity, Judaism
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare
Paganism, Good Christian, Christianity
"Guesses at Truth" by Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, London: Macmillan, (p. 1), 1867.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Annie Besant
Christianity, Claims, Hostile

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

Anne Rice
Names, Quitting, Christianity
"Anne Rice: ‘I Quit Being A Christian’" by Jessie Kunhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2010.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

Ann Coulter
Believe, Law, Christianity
"Ann Coulter Thinks That Jews Need to be Perfected by Becoming Christians" by Larisa Alexandrovna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2007.

Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.

Ann Coulter
Believe, Christianity, Judaism
"Ann Coulter Thinks That Jews Need to be Perfected by Becoming Christians" by Larisa Alexandrovna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2007.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

Alfred North Whitehead
Plato, Lying, Christianity
1938 Adventures of Ideas.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Alfred de Musset
Christianity, Emperor, Ruined

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

Aldous Huxley
Atheism, Christianity, Accepted
Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Taken, People, Christianity

Very few things in life matter.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Things In Life, Matter, Christianity

There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.

Adolf Hitler
Christianity, Unhealthy
Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

Vincent Van Gogh
Sublime, No Friends, Christianity
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

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

Timothy Radcliffe
Community, Good Christian, Christianity

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

Tim Crane
Philosophical, Branches, Christianity
Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

Thomas Aquinas
Sea, Wish, Christianity

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christianity, Theologian

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

Shusaku Endo
Japan, Christianity

Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship.

Robert Thieme
Christmas, Christianity

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

Robert Farrar Capon
Christianity, Ends, Announcements
Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.252, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

Richard Carlile
Earth, Fables, Christianity

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