(853 quotes found)
“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”
Patrick Henry
“Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.”
Blaise Pascal
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully”
Charles Templeton
“My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them”
Abraham Lincoln
“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word- Prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”
Augustine of Hippo
“The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation”
