Quotes about Christianity

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.

We have found that the Spirit is both the instrumental cause of the resurrection-act and the permanent substratum of the resurrection-life.

We have wandered so far from fundamental spiritual knowledge in our culture that literally tens of millions of people—many of whom have long-term ties with the Christian church—have no clue how to even describe a true spiritual experience.

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.

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.