Christianity Quotes
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
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Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.
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Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
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If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.
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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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To me Christianity was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
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Instead, it was a Christianity engaged with modernity and postmodernity — grappling with its issues, sensitive to its questions and concerns, aware of its spiritual vacuum, in vital dialogue with its artistic and intellectual leaders. It was a “third-way” faith seeking to steer a course that would avoid defensive retreat and isolation on the one hand and capitulation and sellout on the other.
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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.
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It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'
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The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
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We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.
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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
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God is never in a hurry, but God is never late
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We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
