Christianity Quotes

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. (Frank Borman)
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. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. View quote
H. L. Mencken
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. View quote
John Quincy Adams
The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity. View quote
Ron Paul
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. (Virchand Gandhi)
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. View quote
George Santayana
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. View quote
James Baldwin
I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. View quote
Barry Goldwater
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. View quote
Will Durant
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. View quote
William Blake
I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal. View quote
Annie Besant
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. View quote
Lord Byron
Of this voyage, I observe,' says the Admiral, 'that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened. (Christopher Columbus)
National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable. View quote
Martin Bormann
They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth. View quote
Baldur von Schirach
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. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. View quote
John Burroughs