CHRISTIANITY QUOTES
quotations about Christianity
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
Weight of Glory
When God makes his presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was--he only saw the brightness of the lord.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's black or white. Christ belongs to all people. He belongs to this whole world.
BILLY GRAHAM
Billy Graham: God's Ambassador
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Jerusalem
I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me -- he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.
A.W. TOZER
attributed, The Battle: Defeating the Enemies of Your Soul
Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.
D.T. NILES
New York Times, May 11, 1986
He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect of church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Aids to Reflection: Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.
BRENNAN MANNING
The Ragamuffin Gospel
Most people think that Christianity is all about us seeking God when the truth is that it's more about God seeking us. He works through events in our lives in order to put Himself in position for us to seek Him, reach out for Him, and find Him. He is in white-hot, zealous, passionate pursuit of a relationship with each one of us.
CHRIS SEIDMAN
Little Buddy
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime and sorrow triumphant.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Courage is the Christian's coronation. There is no crown without it.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.
C. S. LEWIS
God in the Dock
Christianity is the oxygen of the moral world.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
G. K. CHESTERTON
What's Wrong with the World
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.
C. S. LEWIS
Mere Christianity
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
sermon, Sept. 9, 1832
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into the pet shop makes you a cat.
CINDY BOLTON
Revelation
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
RICH MULLINS
attributed, The Right Church: Live Like the First Christians
A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit