Christianity quotes

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  Letter to Eberhardt Bethge, 30  Apr. Collected in Widerstand und Ergebung (1951, translated1953).

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

- Frank Borman
  In US, 21  Apr.

He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Aids to Reflection: Moral and Religious  Aphorisms.

His Christianity was muscular.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Endymion, ch.14.

Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose'are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Religion and Literature.

One was left, too, with a gap in Christianity: the canonical gospels do not record that Christ laughed or played.Cana man be perfect if henever laughs or plays? Krishna's jokes may be vapid, but they bridge a gap.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  The Hill of Devi,'Gokul  Ashtami'.

A local thing called Christianity.

-Thomas Hardy
  The Dynasts, pt.1, act1, sc.6.

Christianity has taught us to care.Caring is the greatest thing, caring matters most.

- Friedrich von, Baron Hu«  gel
Letter to his niece.

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

-William Law
  A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity.

-JohnWinston Lennon
  In the Evening Standard.

People can say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Reginald,'Reginald on Christmas Presents'.

There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Chronicles of Clovis,'The Match-Maker'.

Christianity is the most materialist of all great religions.

-William Temple
  Readings in StJohn's Gospel, vol.1.

Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsfun, fun, fun!and the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

- Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
  The Heart of the Country,'LoveYour Enemy'.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

- Alfred North Whitehead
  Adventures of Ideas.

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

- Alfred North Whitehead
 Adventures of Ideas.