quotations about Christianity
Oh, you do not know yet what Christianity is! You have seen it in poverty, in want, in weakness and woe. A despised wayfaring man, struggling with His hard fate, kicked, buffeted, and despised, even as such an one has Christianity been in the world--a candle in a dark room, a light in a dark place, a sweet song among discords, a heavenly toned voice drowned in Babel sounds; but its day is coming. The heavenly toned voice will rise above and still the Babel sounds; the sweet song will penetrate and harmonize the discords; the light will illumine the dark place until the darkness flies.
REUEN THOMAS
Thoughts for the Thoughtful
That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.
C. S. LEWIS
"Myth Became Fact"
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
PAT BUCHANAN
speech to Christian Coalition, Sept. 1993
There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. Their life runs along that line where the overflow of the Nile meets the desert. It is the boundary line between sand and mud.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Mother Earth, April 1913
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts