Quotes about Christianity

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.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.