George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
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• Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

  

  Adrian Rogers
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• He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

  

  E. M. Forster
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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 Lincoln
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• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Value
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• For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
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• All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Effort
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• Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christianity
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• What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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• Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.

  

  William Wilberforce
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• Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.

  

  Brennan Manning
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• I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

  

  Keith Green
  • People
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• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Illness
  • Cruelty

• A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

  

  Ardant du Picq
  • Hand
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• Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Christianity
  • Emblem
  • Gibbet