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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.

John Lennon

Musician · English · 1940 – 1980

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.

John Lennon

Musician · English · 1940 – 1980

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.

Timothy Radcliffe

Clergyman · English

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.

Lionel Blue

Clergyman · British · b. 1930

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet · English · 1772 – 1834

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.

Kenneth L. Pike

Sociologist · American · 1912 – 2000

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