Christianity Quotes - Page 6

• Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Liberty, Conflict, Divine

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• It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Good Christian

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• Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

  Barry Sanders

  Christian, Player, Battle

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• Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

  Ouida

  Christian, Gay, Religion

  "Views and Opinions".

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• In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of things, throwing self-care to the winds, in the sure and certain faith that you will not be deserted, forsaken nor betrayed, and that your ultimate interests are perfectly secure in the hands of the Great Companion. This insight is the center, the kernel, the growing point of the Christian religion, which, when we have it, all else is secure, and when we have it not, all else is precarious.

  L. P. Jacks

  Christian, Heart, Wind

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• It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Choices, Path

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• We cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say, nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Doe, May

  "The Soul's Conflict With Itself".

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• 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

  Christian, Long, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 16, 1799.

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• How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

  Olympia Brown

  Errors, Giving, Taught

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• I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Blessing, Thinking

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.400, Broadview Press

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• The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religious, Evil, Atrocities

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• The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Real, Found, Difficulty

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 138), 1895.

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• Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

  Noah Porter

  Men, Practice, Events

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• It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.

  Joseph Addison

  Christian, Art, Dark

  Joseph Addison (1812). “The evidences of the Christian religion: with additional discourses on the following subjects, viz: Of God, and his attributes. The power and wisdom of God in the creation. The providence of God. The worship of God. Advantages of revelation above natural reason. Excellency of the Christian institution. Dignity of the Scripture language. Against atheism and infidelity. Against the modern free-thinkers. Immortality of the soul, and a future state. Death and judgment”, p.46

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• The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Christian, Window, Cathedrals

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Marble Faun”, p.270, Booklassic

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• The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

  George Washington

  Light, Influence, Revelations

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.367

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• Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

  Alfred de Musset

  Emperor, Ruined, Saved

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• Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

  George Croly

  Heart, Order, Mind

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• 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 A. Baldwin

  Spiritual, Arrogance, Atheism

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind" by James A. Baldwin in "The New Yorker" (November 17, 1962), republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in James A. Baldwin "The Fire Next Time", 1963.

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• On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, New Year, Easter

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.204, Canongate Books

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• Prayer can never be in excess.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Son, Blood

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

  Edmund Burke

  Rude, Benefits, Fierce

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

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