Christianity Religion Quotes

We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

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

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

You may be a fantastic person, and you may have some wonderful religious views that might even turn out to be true, but the religion you'd be following would not be Christianity.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that "religions" are not "all the same."

Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it.

Did he who made the lamb make thee?