Christianity Quotes

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.