Christians And Christianity

(280 votes)   He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(277 votes)   Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again -- I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(241 votes)   Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(216 votes)   I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(205 votes)   Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(193 votes)   Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(154 votes)   God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Eli Stanley Jones
1884-1973, American Missionary

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(151 votes)   If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(150 votes)   No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(142 votes)   If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

C. T. Studd

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(142 votes)   There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(139 votes)   Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(139 votes)   The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(135 votes)   Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.

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(134 votes)   Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

John Updike
1932-, American Novelist, Critic

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