Famous Christian Quotes - Famous Quotes about Christianity & Religion
A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
- C. S. Lewis
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
- Novalis
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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
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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.
- C. S. Lewis
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
- Billy Sunday
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Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
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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.
- C. S. Lewis
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I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
- James Thomson
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final exam.
- George Carlin
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If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said 'No.'
- Stevie Smith
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
- C. S. Lewis
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
- Andrew Young
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In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game.
- Margery Allingham
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It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
- Roy L. Smith
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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tell you.
- Benjamin Jowett
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
- Israel Zangwill
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Religion is induced insanity.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.
- Jimmy Swaggart
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The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
- Edward Abbey
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
- Richard Francis Burton
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We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'
- Pat Robertson
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
- Robert Ingersoll
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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
- Eric Gill
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