Christianity Quotes

It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ (Note: A quote from William Penn). Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise […]

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality to afford consolation to the thoughtful […]

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

It is impossible to reason upon things not comprehensible by reason; and therefore, if you keep to your text, which priests seldom do… you must admit a religion to which reason can apply, and this certainly is not the Christian religion. There is not an article in the Christian religion that is cognizable by reason.

It is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality unless they are prepared to take their stand upon the fundamentals of Christian theology.

Every bird that upwards swings – Bears the Cross upon its wings.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

Christ, in His divine innocence, said to the woman of Samaria, ‘Ye worship ye know not what’ – being apparently under the impression that it might be desirable, on the whole, to know what one was worshipping. He thus showed Himself sadly out of touch with the twentieth century mind, for the cry today is: […]

A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment though the ministrations of a Christ without a cross. (summarizing the creed of American Christianity)