Christianity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,474 Christianity Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world”
Voltaire Quotes
“Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage”
C.S. Lewis Quotes
“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“The last Christian died on the cross”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”
Donald Miller Quotes
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
“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”
Voltaire Quotes
“Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 28)
“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 83)
“His Christianity was muscular.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Source: Endymion (ch. XIV)
“A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.”
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare Quotes
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain."”
John Keble Quotes
Source: Christian Year--St. Luke--The Evangelist
“Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles, And it weareth the Christian down. And the end of the fight is a tombstone white With the name of the late deceased-- And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here Who tried to hustle the East."”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Source: Naulahka (heading of ch. V)
“The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.”
William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes
Source: History of European Morals
“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”
Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
Source: Crowds (bk. II, ch. XVIII)
“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.”
Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
Source: Crowds (bk. II, ch. XVIII)
“Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 29)
“Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes
Source: Essays--Of Vain Subleties
“Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than be the Christian of a faith like this, Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway, And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.”
Thomas Moore Quotes
Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
“Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]”
Thomas Moore Quotes
Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
“Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Moral Essay (ep. II, l. 68)
“You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.”
Francois Rabelais Quotes
Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. L)