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Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ!
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Homily of His Holiness John Paul II for the Inauguration of his Pontificate, St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on Sunday, 22 October 1978
- Courage
Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.
Mike Johnsonborn 1972Interview with Sean Hannity, Fox News (26 October 2023)
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
James Joyce1882–1941Stephen Hero (1944)
- Anti-Religion
Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context
- Religion
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.
LLLynn Lavner
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
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)
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
‘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
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
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‘opiate of the people’ have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain