Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.
There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it.
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don?t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.
What if there had been room at the inn?
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them.
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
When words fail, music speaks.
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.
Joel Ed, are you hallucinating Ed Oh, yeah, but not right now.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian.
The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
The last Christian died on the cross.
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.