161 quotes
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Frank Borman
Astronaut · American · b. 1928
No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.
Frederick Henry Hedge
Clergyman · American
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
John Strachan
Clergyman · Canadian · 1778 – 1867
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Jan Peter Balkenende
Statesman · Dutch · b. 1956
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Matthew Hale
Historian · British · 1609 – 1676
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
Bruce Kent
Activist · British · b. 1929
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
Activist · American · 1853 – 1926
I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
Joseph Lister
Scientist · English · 1827 – 1912
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
T-Bone Burnett
Christianity is part of the common law.
James Wilson
Politician · American · 1742 – 1798
Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
Robert Rainy
Clergyman · Scottish · 1826 – 1906
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Ralph A. Cram
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
John Lennon
Musician · English · 1940 – 1980
A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
Randall Terry
Celebrity · American
What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.
Stephen Baldwin
Actor · American · b. 1966
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
Pete Seeger
Musician · American · b. 1919
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
Patti Smith
Musician · American · b. 1946
I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
Ted Lange
Actor · American · b. 1947
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
Lee Greenwood
Musician · American · b. 1942
I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.
Oleksandr Zhuravliov
Athlete · Russian · b. 1945
I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.
Willie Aames
Actor · American · b. 1960
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
Carl Olson
Athlete · American · 1928 – 2002
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert Hubbard
Writer · American · 1859 – 1915
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet · English · 1772 – 1834
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn
Leader · English · 1644 – 1718
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Lionel Blue
Clergyman · British · b. 1930
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Mary Douglas
Scientist · British · 1921 – 2007
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
Timothy Radcliffe
Clergyman · English
The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
Michael Novak
Philosopher · American · b. 1933
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Peter Jennings
Journalist · Canadian · b. 1938
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Historian · American · 1884 – 1968
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Ralph Inge
Clergyman · English · 1860 – 1954
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
Poet · English · 1757 – 1827
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
Mary Baker Eddy
Theologian · American · 1821 – 1910
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Augustus Hare
Writer · English · 1834 – 1903
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs
Author · American · 1837 – 1921
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
Josh McDowell
Writer · American · b. 1939
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks
Clergyman · American · b. 1835
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare
Playwright · English · b. 1947
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift
Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung
Psychologist · Swiss · 1875 – 1961
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
Kenneth L. Pike
Sociologist · American · 1912 – 2000
Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.