Christianity Quotes

the night of thought is the light of perception.

True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the on...

Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygie...

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance a...

I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s b...

Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to kn...

Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he w...

If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without ...

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he ...

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the ...

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to kn...

Principles are what people have instead of God.To be a Christian means among other things to be will...

To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess ...

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slav...

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid ...

I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposit...

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian,...

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse or...

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other rea...

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be ...

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was...

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precep...

In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but “confiscated” the Message; Chri...

If Mohammed had been a false prophet. there is no reason why Christ should not have spoken of him as...

As for the negation of the Christian Trinity in the Quran - and this negation is extrinsic and condi...

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift fr...

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often prai...

Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a ...

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they ...

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ wit...

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ...

In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptati...

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine r...

The Christian soul knows it needs Divine Help and therefore turns to Him Who loved us even while we ...

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The emp...

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang ...

Yet what moved Our Blessed Lord to invective was not badness but just such self-righteousness as thi...

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which sta...

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrend...

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perf...

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrat...

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intell...

And then I stand in front of God's Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, 'You had yo...

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gla...

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, strikin...

There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie aga...

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.

I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard ...

Every child of God is not called by the Lord to establish schools and orphan houses and to trust in ...

As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner m...

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as...

The primary business I must attend to every day is to fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is...

After the Lord has tried our faith, he, in the love of His heart, gives us an abundance. For the glo...

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing i...

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hell...

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own...

The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or...

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty ha...

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do like...

Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, a...

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always...

His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moment...

A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

The work God carries out in us,' he said after a short pause, 'is not often what we expect. A great ...

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge proj...

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider...

Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe a...

The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. N...

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to p...

They know they dare not have their stuff stripped down to plain words. These Bishops and parsons wit...

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christian...

What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'espe...

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine co...

The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of co...

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transc...

The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the...

Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open ...