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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
-Norman Vincent Peale
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
-William Penn
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
-William Lyon Phelps
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The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. To these men it is quite plainly the invasion of their lives by a new quality of life altogether. They do not hesitate to describe this as Christ living in them.
-James Phillips
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
-Wendell Phillips
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Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
-Peace Pilgrim
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world
-Pope John Paul II
To 19,000 students in New York City, October 3, 1979
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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
-Ezra Pound
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“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.â€
-Leonard Ravenhill
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Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?
-Ernest Renan
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
-Ernest Renan
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Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet--a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
-Frederick William Robertson
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
-Saint Francis of Assisi
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
-Francis Schaeffer
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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
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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?
-Samuel M. Shoemaker
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The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
-Angelus Silesius
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
-Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
-Thomas Taylor
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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Books about Christianity
