Christianity Quotes:

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Needs, World, Christianity

Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.

- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 35, 1895.

topic: Bible, Men, Christianity

You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Sacrifice, Islam, Christianity, Fatherland

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Religion, Atheism, Christianity

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Dogma, Christianity, Worn

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Law, Christianity, Rebellion, Natural Law

Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Facts, Christianity, Building, Catholic Faith

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

- Adoniram Judson

topic: Religion, Missionary, Christianity, Printer

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Christianity, Trusted

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: May, Christianity, Smooth

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

- Aimee Semple McPherson

source: Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.677, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Live For Today, Bears, Christianity

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

- Alan Hirsch

topic: Adventure, Spirit, Christianity

Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.

- Albert Mohler

topic: Answers, Christianity, Modern

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

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Atheism, Christianity, Accepted

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

- Alexander Schmemann

topic: Christianity, Process

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Liberty, Conflict, Christianity

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

- Alfred de Musset

topic: Christianity, Emperor, Ruined

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Christianity, Pale

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Faces, Christianity, Difficulty

Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.

- Alister E. McGrath

topic: Tasks, Facts, Christianity, Apologetic

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.

- Andrew Bonar

topic: Christianity, Mighty God, Servant Of God, Greatness Of God

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Christian, Long, Christianity

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

- Ann Coulter

topic: Believe, Christianity, Judaism

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

- Ann Coulter

topic: Believe, Law, Christianity

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

- Anne Askew

topic: Church, Lines, Christianity, Protestantism, Great Christian

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

- Anne Rice

topic: Names, Quitting, Christianity

The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Names, Christianity, Satanism

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

- Armistead Maupin

source: Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

topic: Gay, Mama, Christianity, Like Family

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

- Arthur Keith

source: Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

topic: Opposites, Christianity, Made

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 133), 1895.

topic: Sacrifice, Christianity, Calvary

God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Perfect, Change For The Better, Christianity

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

- Augustus Hare

source: Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.13

topic: Paganism, Good Christian, Christianity

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

- Barack Obama

topic: Christian, Christianity, Christian Nation, Christian Truth, Nation Of Islam

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

- Barack Obama

topic: Christian, Christianity, Christian Nation, Christian Truth, Christian Values

I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

- Barack Obama

topic: Rewards, Christianity, Good Things, Christian Values, Christian Faith

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

- Barack Obama

topic: People, Christianity, Controversial, Christianity And Islam

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Art, Ideas, Christianity

Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission.

- Ben F. Meyer

topic: Jesus, World, Christianity

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Christianity, Judaism

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Christianity, Neighbor, Modern, Love Your Neighbor As Yourself, Neighbor Love

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

topic: Failing, Christianity, Virtue

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

- Bill Haywood

source: Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”

topic: Fables, Christianity, Nonsense, Compilation

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

- Bill Hybels

topic: Christianity, Communicate, Walks, Authentic Christianity

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

- Billy Graham

topic: Sports, Christianity, Spectators

Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.

- Billy Graham

topic: Battle, Christianity, Communism, Anti Christ

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Three, Christianity, Lord, Spineless

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

- Bridget Riley

topic: Loss, Thinking, Christianity, Good Christian

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

- Brother Lawrence

topic: Conversations With God, Christianity, Lifestyle

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

- Bryan Fischer

source: "Islam and the First Amendment: privileges but not rights". www.renewamerica.com. March 24, 2011.

topic: Exercise, Firsts, Christianity

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Kindness, Love Is, Christianity, Grief Observed

There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Men, Care, Christianity

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Reading, Miracle, Christianity

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Church, Together, Christianity, Assembling

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Christianity, Easier, Making Up

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Advice, Good Advice, Christianity

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Years, Good Man, Christianity, True Or False

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

- Catherine Booth

topic: Water, Rising, Christianity

Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

- Catherine of Genoa

topic: Feel Better, Stronger, Christianity, Make Me Feel Better, Lenten

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

- Charles Brent

source: Charles Henry Brent (1915). “The Revelation of Discovery”

topic: Praying, Christianity, Hardest

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

- Charles Colson

source: Charles W. Colson, Anne Morse (2006). “The One Year Devotions for People of Purpose”, Tyndale House Pub

topic: Today, Christianity, Results, Marginalization

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

topic: Years, Age, Christianity

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

- Charles Simeon

source: Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae Homileticae: Or Discourses (principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested Into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; to which is Annexed, an Improved Edition of a Translation of Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: In Twenty-one Volumes. Galatians-Ephesians”, p.13

topic: Christianity, Justification, Turns, Justification By Faith

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heart, Christianity, Brows, Mutability

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Kings, Missionary, Christianity, Missions In Life

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

- Charles Studd

topic: People, Missionary, Christianity, Missionary Life, Christian Missionary

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

topic: Years, Christianity, Friars, Roman Emperor

Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.

- Charlotte Bingham

topic: Giving, Christianity, Fortune

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

- Charlotte Mary Yonge

topic: Aroma, Christianity, Refinement

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Stories, Facts, Christianity

In Christianity, nobody wins until everybody crosses the line.

- Christine Caine

topic: Winning, Lines, Christianity

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Atheist, Atheism, Christianity

Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

- Cyril of Jerusalem

topic: Skills, Physicians, Christianity, Surpassing

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

- D. Elton Trueblood

topic: World, Hearing, Christianity

Nothing in Christianity is original.

- Dan Brown

topic: Christianity

The Lord help me to press after God forever

- David Brainerd

topic: Forever, Helping, Christianity, Lord Help Me

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

- David Brainerd

source: David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.50

topic: Delight, World, Christianity

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

- David Brainerd

topic: Christianity, Eternity, Missions In Life

Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

- David Brainerd

topic: Night, Soul, Christianity

It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

- David Bryant

source: David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

topic: Church, Causes, Christianity

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

- David Bryant

source: David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

topic: Incentives, Care, Christianity

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

- David Bryant

topic: Facts, Christianity, Bases, Missionary Life, Christian Missionary

But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.

- David Javerbaum

topic: Jesus, Christianity

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

- David Livingstone

topic: Christianity, Willing

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

- David Platt

topic: Messages, Christianity, Settling, Catering

I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

- Dee Snider

source: Dee Snider (2012). “Shut Up and Give Me the Mic”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, Christianity, Profanity

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

- Diana Butler Bass

topic: Creating, Community, Christianity

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Peanut Butter, Peanuts, Christianity

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Godly, Christian Inspirational, Christianity

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Godly, Christianity, Christ, Christian Discipleship, Following Christ

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Infinite, Christianity, Worthless, Worthlessness

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Christianity, Christ, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

- Don Cupitt

topic: Christianity

Capital T truth is dead.

- Don Cupitt

topic: Culture, Christianity, Truth Is

Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.

- E. Stanley Jones

topic: Sin, Christianity, Cynicism

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Fall, Rome, Christianity, Fall Of Rome

Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

- Edward Schillebeeckx

topic: Faith, Messages, Christianity

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Sublime, Sorrow, Christianity

Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

- Eric Ludy

source: Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When God Writes Your Love Story (Expanded Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Guy/Girl Relationships”, p.36, Multnomah

topic: Moving, Christianity, Moving In, Moving Out

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

- Eric Metaxas

topic: Church, Germs, Christianity, Bonhoeffer

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

- Erwin McManus

topic: Buddhism, Thinking, Christianity, Hinduism And Buddhism

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

- Evagrius Ponticus

topic: Soul, Christianity, Adversaries

The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: Christianity, Declaration

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

- Francis Chan

topic: Christian Inspirational, Religion, Christianity, Unbelievers

This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.

- Francis Schaeffer

topic: Christian, Age, Christianity

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

- Francis Schaeffer

topic: Christian, Answers, Christianity, Unified

If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

- Francis Schaeffer

source: Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

topic: Men, Christianity, Intellect, Really True

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Prayer, Essentials, Christianity, Intercession, Prayers Not Being Answered

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

- Frank J. Tipler

topic: Christianity

Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.

- Frederic Dan Huntington

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 135, 1895.

topic: Causes, Christianity, Christendom

The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.

- Frederick Franck

topic: Resurrection, Christianity, Crosses

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Taste, Christianity, Reason

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Vices, Poison, Christianity, Eros, Beyond Good And Evil

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

- G. C. Berkouwer

topic: Doe, Christianity, Bonhoeffer, Worldliness

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

- G. Campbell Morgan

topic: Failing, Christianity, Disturbance

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

- Geoffrey Fisher

topic: Long, Joy, Christianity

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

- George Berkeley

source: George Berkeley (1871). “Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744”, p.178

topic: Christianity, Cynicism, Stoicism, Insensibility, Nastiness

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Stupidity, Might, Christianity

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

- George H. Smith

source: George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.308, Prometheus Books

topic: Men, Christianity, Natural, Happy Man

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

- George H. Smith

source: George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.308, Prometheus Books

topic: Religion, Atheism, Christianity

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

- George Muller

topic: Reality, Christianity, Holy

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

- George Steiner

topic: Civilization, Christianity, Hoping For The Best

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

- George Verwer

source: George Verwer (1979). “Hunger for reality”, Authentic Media

topic: Needs, Christianity, Christian Life, Missionary Life, Missions In Life

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

- George Whitefield

source: George Whitefield (1958). “Select Sermons of George Whitefield”, Banner of Truth

topic: Doctrine, Holiness, Christianity, Holiness Of God

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

- Gerald Vann

topic: Depressing, Christianity, Aggressive, Illogical

Be living witnesses of the greatness and beauty of Christianity.

- Gianna Beretta Molla

topic: Greatness, Christianity, Witness

There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

- Gloria Gaither

topic: Christianity, Enough, Draws

Christianity is such a silly religion.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Silly, Atheism, Christianity

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

- Greg L. Bahnsen

topic: Christianity, Virtue, Impossibility

Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.

- Gregory Thaumaturgus

source: Gregory Thaumaturgus (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory Thaumaturgus (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Men, Triumph, Christianity, Hades

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

- Hans Rookmaaker

topic: Art, Christianity, Used

There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I dont agree with. Im not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.

- Haylie Duff

topic: Thinking, Belief, Christianity

God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

- Henrietta Mears

topic: Faith, Christianity, Grows

the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...

- Henrietta Szold

source: Marvin Lowenthal, Henrietta Szold (1942). “Henrietta Szold: Life and Letters”, New York : Viking Press

topic: Treasure, Paganism, Christianity

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

- Henry Allen Ironside

topic: Play, Want, Christianity

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

- Henry Allen Ironside

topic: Lips, Christianity, Testimony

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

- Henry Allen Ironside

topic: Christianity, Christ, Substitutes

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

- Henry Cloud

topic: Reality, Morality, Christianity

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

- Henry Parry Liddon

topic: Real, Christianity, Found, Present Day

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Fruit, Christianity, Good Nature, True Christianity

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

- Herbert Butterfield

source: Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

topic: Renaissance, Revolution, Christianity, Christendom, Scientific Revolution

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

- Herrick Johnson

source: Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

topic: Development, Moral, Christianity, Superfluous

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

- Horatius Bonar

topic: Christianity, Eternity, Stakes

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

- Hudson Taylor

topic: Brother, Knees, Christianity, Missionary Life, Missions And Prayer

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

- Huston Smith

source: "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November, 1997.

topic: Christianity, Grades, Made, Third Grade, Vedanta

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

- Huston Smith

topic: God, Compass, Christianity

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

- Ignatius of Antioch

topic: World, Christianity, Hated

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

- Ignatius of Antioch

topic: Jesus, Resurrection, Christianity

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

- Irving Babbitt

topic: Lust, Three, Christianity, Classification

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.

- Israel Zolli

topic: Jesus, Promise, Christianity

Never be satisfied with the world's standard of Christianity!

- J. C. Ryle

topic: World, Christianity, Standards

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Prayer, Christianity, True Christianity

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Real, Honest, Christianity

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

- J. P. Donleavy

source: J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Christianity, Insolence

Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.

- J. Sidlow Baxter

topic: Book, Messages, Christianity

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

- James McCosh

source: James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.340

topic: Mother, Ideas, Christianity, Modern Education

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

- James Stuart Stewart

topic: Debate, Christianity, Declaration

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

- Jane Addams

topic: Desire, Spirit, Christianity

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

- Jaroslav Pelikan

topic: Matter, Christianity, Christ

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

- Jean Baptiste Massillon

source: Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1769). “Sermons "on the Duties of the Great,": Translated from the French of M. Massillon, ... by William Dodd, ...”, p.52

topic: Christian, Heaven, Christianity

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

- Jeremy Bentham

topic: Historical, Looks, Christianity, Anti Christ

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.

- Jermaine Jackson

topic: Islam, Answers, Christianity, Queries

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

- Jim Elliot

topic: Voice, Needs, Christianity

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

- Johann Sebastian Bach

topic: Inspirational, Play, Christianity

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

- John Ashcroft

topic: Son, Christianity

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

- John Burroughs

topic: Incredibles, Christianity, Method

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Faith, Humility, Christianity, True Intelligence

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

- John Calvin

topic: Church, Christianity, Institutions, Sacraments

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

- John Calvin

topic: Christianity, Genuine

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

- John Donne

source: John Donne (1839). “Sermons”, p.238

topic: God, Faith, Christianity

The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.

- John G. Lake

source: John G. Lake (2010). “Your Power In The Holy Spirit”, p.105, Whitaker House

topic: Jesus, Secret, Christianity

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

- John G. Lake

topic: Moving, Men, Christianity

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

- John Gresham Machen

topic: Christianity, Consistent, Clearness

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

- John Knox

topic: Devil, Christianity, Pulpit

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

- John Mott

topic: Social Work, Christianity, Evangelism

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

- John Mott

topic: Mean, Forget, Christianity, Prevailing Prayer

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

- John Ortberg

topic: Jesus, Arguing, Christianity, Evangelical, Marvelous

He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.

- John Owen

topic: Work Out, Able, Christianity

It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

- John Owen

topic: Soul, Christianity, Glorify

When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.

- John R. Rice

source: John R. Rice (1980). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.299, Sword of the Lord Publishers

topic: Essence, Hatred, Christianity

Christianity is part of the law of England.

- John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

topic: Law, England, Christianity

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Religious, Christianity, Eternity, Living Fully

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Roles, Way, Christianity

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

- John Stott

topic: Easter, Done, Christianity, Christ On The Cross

He must increase, but I must decrease.

- John the Baptist

topic: Christianity, Increase, Decrease, Glorifying God, Prevailing Prayer

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

- Jonathan Goforth

topic: Christianity, Resources, Missionary Life, Missions And Prayer, Christian Missionary

Seek each day to do or say something to further Christianity among the heathen.

- Jonathan Goforth

topic: Each Day, Christianity, Heathen

Christianity isn't all that complicated ... it's Jesus.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: Jesus, Complicated, Christianity

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

- Joseph Lister

topic: Doctrine, Fundamentals, Christianity, Good Christian

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Would Be, Christianity

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

- Josh McDowell

topic: Jesus, Son, Christianity, Refutation

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

- Josiah Strong

topic: Church, Needs, Christianity

Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

- Jude the Apostle

topic: Fire, Christianity

God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful.

- Judson Cornwall

source: Judson Cornwall (2012). “Praying The Scriptures: Using God's Words to Effect Change in All of Life's Situations”, p.39, Charisma Media

topic: Powerful, Communication, Christianity

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

- Julius Charles Hare

topic: Christianity, Virtue, Obedience

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.

- Julius Streicher

topic: Book, Greek, Christianity, Publication, Rabbi

All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

- K.P. Yohannan

topic: Students, Christianity, Disciple

Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

- K.P. Yohannan

topic: Christianity, Christ, Obedience, Optional

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

- Karen Armstrong

topic: Islam, Christianity, Violent

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

- Keanu Reeves

topic: Stories, Christianity, Amen, Hallelujah

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Ideas, Would Be, Christianity, Incongruity