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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.
?UnattributedOften credited to Patrick Henry
- America
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
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. Lewis1898–1963
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963God in the Dock (1994) p. 101.
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The World’s Last Night
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Christmas
‘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. Lewis1898–1963The Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan to Caspian, in Ch. 15: Aslan Makes A Door In The Air
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826In: John F. Nash Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation,14 February 2008, p. 11.
- Anti-Religion
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 Lennon1940–1980
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.
Napoleon1769–1821
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 16
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What’s Wrong With The World (1910), The Unfinished Temple