Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
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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.
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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.
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The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.
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He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects
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LEONARD I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious. CHRIS I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on itthe gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered.
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
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There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.
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Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.
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Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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