Teresa of Ávila on Christianity

It is love alone that gives value to all things.

Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought.

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness.

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 Lincoln1809–1865

• Anti-Religion

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. Lewis1898–1963“Is Theology Poetry?” (1945)

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.