Famously Said Random quote

Topics/Religion

Quotes about Christianity

160 quotes from 89 people

Most readBy personPage 10 of 11

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1933), Epilogue, p. 241
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Saint Joan (1923), Epilogue (Cauchon)
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
My opinion concerning God differs widely from that which is ordinarily defended by modern Christians. For I hold that God is of all things the cause immanent, as the phrase is, not transient.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- God
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Gleanings Among the Sheaves (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1869), “Holiness”, p. 73
- God
Well, speaking as a Christian, I would like to say that I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Remarks to a Baptist convention in Texas during the 1952 presidential campaign
- Clever Jabs
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Charity
We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.
Tertullian150–220Apologeticus, 50, s. 13
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
- America
- Liberty
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (October 12, 1896), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
- Government
The Churches as Churches have always been and cannot fail to be institutions not only alien to, but directly hostile towards, Christ’s teaching.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter III, Christianity Misunderstood by Believers
- Anti-Religion
This is a Christian nation.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972“Exchange of Messages With Pope Pius XII,” American Presidency Project (August 28, 1947)
- America
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain1835–1910