CHRISTIANITY QUOTES

quotations about Christianity

Christianity quote

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C.S. LEWIS

Weight of Glory


When God makes his presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was--he only saw the brightness of the lord.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's black or white. Christ belongs to all people. He belongs to this whole world.

BILLY GRAHAM

Billy Graham: God's Ambassador


The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Jerusalem


Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.

D.T. NILES

New York Times, May 11, 1986


He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect of church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Aids to Reflection: Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Most people think that Christianity is all about us seeking God when the truth is that it's more about God seeking us. He works through events in our lives in order to put Himself in position for us to seek Him, reach out for Him, and find Him. He is in white-hot, zealous, passionate pursuit of a relationship with each one of us.

CHRIS SEIDMAN

Little Buddy


I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me -- he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.

A.W. TOZER

attributed, The Battle: Defeating the Enemies of Your Soul


Christianity has made martyrdom sublime and sorrow triumphant.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

BRENNAN MANNING

The Ragamuffin Gospel


A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.

C. S. LEWIS

God in the Dock


Courage is the Christian's coronation. There is no crown without it.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths


Christianity is the oxygen of the moral world.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

G. K. CHESTERTON

What's Wrong with the World


Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.

C. S. LEWIS

Mere Christianity


I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

sermon, Sept. 9, 1832


Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

RICH MULLINS

attributed, The Right Church: Live Like the First Christians


A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into the pet shop makes you a cat.

CINDY BOLTON

Revelation