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It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

It's too early for a Polish pope.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

Muslims who convert to Christianity are not protected. That carries capital punishment. He would be given the opportunity to repent, and the Sharia court would need to determine if he was really a Muslim in the first place, did he know what he was doing, and once all of that has been determined, there is capital punishment for that in Islam.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

No man is greater than his prayer life.