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\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes and aphorisms on religion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quotes and aphorisms on religion, great words of wisdom and different opinions by various authors on the most important social phenomenon of the world culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

A nation that displays the shitty faces of poor religious idiots on the walls of its cities must by strict logic necessarily be destroyed, never mind the international law of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.<\/span>
\nLouis Aragon<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past, to subjugate the people, the powerful used force, laws and religion; now, they also have football and television.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.<\/span>
\nMatthew Arnold<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.<\/span>
\nRoger Babson<\/span><\/p>\n

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.<\/span>
\nMikhail Bakunin<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.<\/span>
\nHerman Boerhaave<\/span><\/p>\n

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

I coined a synonym for syncretism, namely syncretinism. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.<\/span>
\nPhillips Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

And lips say “God be pitiful,” who never said, “God be praised.”<\/span>
\nElizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.<\/span>
\nPatrick Buchanan<\/span><\/p>\n

All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. \u2026 The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.<\/span>
\nEdmund Burke<\/span><\/p>\n

One gives praise to God not only through prayers of thanksgiving, but also through obedience to His commandments and service to others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves.<\/span>
\nGeorge H. Bush )<\/span><\/p>\n

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day…<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.<\/span>
\nGilbert K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

If religion is only human, and its form is man’s form, it follows that everything in religion is true.<\/span>
\nEmile Auguste Chartier<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays, besides being corrupted by stupidity, the Vatican is corrupted by syncretinism. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion! What treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!<\/span>
\nWilliam Cowper<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pope is none other than the president of that huge Vatican industry that has made the Catholic religion its great consumer product.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Culture’s essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.<\/span>
\nNorthrop Frye<\/span><\/p>\n

Culture’s essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.<\/span>
\nNorthrop Frye<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.<\/span>
\nJohn Galsworthy<\/span><\/p>\n

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former — of the corruption of the will.<\/span>
\nAlexander Herzen<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.<\/span>
\nEdward Hoagland<\/span><\/p>\n

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.<\/span>
\nThomas Hobbes<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is man’s twisted thinking, out of which temples are erected to realize it.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.<\/span>
\nEric Hoffer<\/span><\/p>\n

To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.<\/span>
\nEric Hoffer<\/span><\/p>\n

I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.<\/span>
\nBob Hope<\/span><\/p>\n

Give us a religion that will help us to live – we can die without assistance.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammedanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

Syncretinism is the most updated keyword of the modern catholic church.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Toleration is the best religion.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.<\/span>
\nDean William R. Inge<\/span><\/p>\n

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

I have tried to keep things in my hands and lost them all, but what I have given into the Lord’s hands I still possess.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man with God is always in the majority.<\/span>
\nJohn Knox<\/span><\/p>\n

Perdition shall be the lot of man, except for those who have faith and do good works and exhort each other to justice and fortitude.<\/span>
\nThe Koran<\/span><\/p>\n

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.<\/span>
\nKarl Kraus<\/span><\/p>\n

To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!<\/span>
\nJean De La Bruyere<\/span><\/p>\n

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.<\/span>
\nC. S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.<\/span>
\nChristopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.<\/span>
\nMichel Eyquem De Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

The church burned my friend Giordano, and we don’t forget, we don’t forgive.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.<\/span>
\nSuzanne Lafollette<\/span><\/p>\n

My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness.<\/span>
\nDalai Lama<\/span><\/p>\n

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.<\/span>
\nD. H. Lawrence<\/span><\/p>\n

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.<\/span>
\nThomas B. Macaulay<\/span><\/p>\n

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.<\/span>
\nC. S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.<\/span>
\nJoseph De Maistre<\/span><\/p>\n

Even Voltaire said it: “If God didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him!”<\/span><\/span> And that’s exactly what our ancestors must have thought, too.<\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes and aphorisms on religion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?<\/span>
\nHarriet Martineau<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.<\/span>
\nHarriet Martineau<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is the opium of the masses.<\/span>
\nKarl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.<\/span>
\nKarl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.<\/span>
\nJames R. Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it, ought to be treated as a common enemy.<\/span>
\nLady Mary Wortley Montagu<\/span><\/p>\n

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.<\/span>
\nGerard De Nerval<\/span><\/p>\n

The Vatican has always been corrupted, first of all by stupidity. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.<\/span>
\nJohn Henry Newman<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.<\/span>
\nReinhold Niebuhr<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.<\/span>
\nSean O’Casey<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. And, the grace of God is the glue.<\/span>
\nEugene O’Neill<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

If we want to discover what is true, we must be completely free from all religions, all conditioning, all dogmas, all beliefs, and any authority that pushes us to conform; essentially, to be completely alone, and that is very difficult.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.<\/span>
\nBlaise Pascal<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

A maker of idols is never an idolater.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.<\/span>
\nEdgar Quinet<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.<\/span>
\nSir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.<\/span>
\nSalman Rushdie<\/span><\/p>\n

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Religions are the cradles of despotism.<\/span>
\nMarquis De Sade<\/span><\/p>\n

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.<\/span>
\nGeorge Santayana<\/span><\/p>\n

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.<\/span>
\nEdith Schaeffer<\/span><\/p>\n

Progressive intellectuals spent decades of centuries freeing themselves from the imbecility of the Catholic religion, only to end up supporting the stupidity of Islam and its fanatical puppets. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.<\/span>
\nSusan Sontag<\/span><\/p>\n

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.<\/span>
\nGloria Steinem<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have two religions in your country, they will cut each other’ throat; if you have thirty religions, they will live in peace.<\/span>
\nFrancois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.<\/span>
\nAllen Tate<\/span><\/p>\n

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.<\/span>
\nLord Alfred Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.<\/span>
\nTertullian<\/span><\/p>\n

Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible Source: Corinthians 4.2<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.<\/span>
\nPaul Tillich<\/span><\/p>\n

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.<\/span>
\nAlexis De Tocqueville<\/span><\/p>\n

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious — except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A good test of a man’s religion is its vitality.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Buddhism believes in reincarnation, but this theory is unsuitable for the wise; in fact, it is better for so many imbeciles to remain in the realm of the dead.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is insurance in this world against fire in the next.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.<\/span>
\nJohn Updike<\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion.<\/span>
\nFrancois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is love: in no case is it logic.<\/span>
\nBeatrice Potter Webb<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.<\/span>
\nWilliam Wilberforce<\/span><\/p>\n

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t try to tear down other people’s religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it’s glories.<\/span>
\nBrigham Young<\/span><\/p>\n

By night an atheist half believes in God.<\/span>
\nEdward Young<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.<\/span>
\nFred A. Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty – necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.<\/span>
\nJames Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

Humanity’s spiritual, metaphysical, mystical, literary, and sociological beliefs are also very useful in promoting those stupid wars, also more vulgarly called, of religion.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aphorisms<\/a>
Aphorisms and quotes about religion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord’s Prayer.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Bonaparte<\/span><\/p>\n

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.<\/span>
\nOlympia Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world’s.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity; for the mere pleasure of fancying, I may be damned.<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.<\/span>
\nHerb Caen<\/span><\/p>\n

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him… a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.<\/span>
\nLouis-Ferdinand Celine<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.<\/span>
\nGilbert K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.<\/span>
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

The question is not ”How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, ”What about Christ’s will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?”<\/span>
\nRobert A. Cook<\/span><\/p>\n

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.<\/span>
\nPatrick Henry<\/span><\/p>\n

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.<\/span>
\nNikki Giovanni<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.<\/span>
\nBilly Graham<\/span><\/p>\n

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.<\/span>
\nBilly Graham<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.<\/span>
\nRichard Halverson<\/span><\/p>\n

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.<\/span>
\nLynn Harold Hough<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.<\/span>
\nLynn Harold Hough<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

God doesn’t have any grandchildren.<\/span>
\nEli Stanley Jones<\/span><\/p>\n

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.<\/span>
\nThomas a Kempis<\/span><\/p>\n

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.<\/span>
\nRudyard Kipling<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.<\/span>
\nC. S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.<\/span>
\nC. S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.<\/span>
\nHarold Lindsell<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian life consists of faith and charity.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther<\/span><\/p>\n

Christians are rare people on earth.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther<\/span><\/p>\n

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.<\/span>
\nW. Somerset Maugham<\/span><\/p>\n

A good example is far better than a good precept.<\/span>
\nDwight L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.<\/span>
\nDwight L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.<\/span>
\nDwight L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.<\/span>
\nDwight L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that, though it is not true, it has been found necessary to invent it.<\/span>
\nHector Hugh Munro<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity makes suffering contagious.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

What if men take to following where He leads, weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?<\/span>
\nRoden Noel<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.<\/span>
\nNovalis<\/span><\/p>\n

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.<\/span>
\nWilliam Penn<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity is a battle not a dream.<\/span>
\nWendell Phillips<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it – almost none. And when you live it people may think you’re crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.<\/span>
\nPeace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.<\/span>
\nAlexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.<\/span>
\nFrancis Schaeffer<\/span><\/p>\n

Is your Christianity ancient history – or current events?<\/span>
\nSamuel M. Shoemaker<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Cady Stanton<\/span><\/p>\n

If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.<\/span>
\nR. A. Torrey<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian’s chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.<\/span>
\nJohn R. Stott<\/span><\/p>\n

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.<\/span>
\nC. T. Studd<\/span><\/p>\n

But seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter said, \u201cI have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, [rise and] walk.\u201d<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out: an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.<\/span>
\nCount Leo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.<\/span>
\nA. W. Tozer<\/span><\/p>\n

Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn’t make you a Christian.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

One ABC of Christianity: “Always Be Cheerful”<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is someone who comes from Boston, A Christian is one who comes from Christ.<\/span>
\nDon Walk<\/span><\/p>\n

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.<\/span>
\nEdmund Waller<\/span><\/p>\n

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.<\/span>
\nThomas Ybarra<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.<\/span>
\nLeslie Weatherhead<\/span><\/p>\n

The spirit of Christian liberality will strengthen as it is exercised.<\/span>
\nEllen G. While<\/span><\/p>\n

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.<\/span>
\nIsrael Zangwill<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.<\/span>
\nJohn Adams )<\/span><\/p>\n

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!<\/span>
\nRobert Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.<\/span>
\nAnthony Burgess<\/span><\/p>\n

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action – that the end will sanction any means.<\/span>
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.<\/span>
\nThomas Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.<\/span>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.<\/span>
\nMatthew Fox<\/span><\/p>\n

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it: that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and .<\/span>
\nEric Gill<\/span><\/p>\n

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?<\/span>
\nHaniel Long<\/span><\/p>\n

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.<\/span>
\nThomas B. Macaulay<\/span><\/p>\n

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.<\/span>
\nMadonna<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t run the Church on Hail Marys.<\/span>
\nArchbishop Paul Marcinkus<\/span><\/p>\n

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the custom of the Roman Church, which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.<\/span>
\nPope Gregory VII<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you’re going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.<\/span>
\nMuriel Spark<\/span><\/p>\n

Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you will not find Him.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is woman being treated either as a Madonna or a Mary Magdalene.<\/span>
\nShirley Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.<\/span>
\nFred A. Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.<\/span>
\nKingsley Amis<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work.<\/span>
\nBrooks Atkinson<\/span><\/p>\n

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.<\/span>
\nJane Austen<\/span><\/p>\n

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.<\/span>
\nRobert Mcafee Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.<\/span>
\nWilliam Adams Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.<\/span>
\nJohn Calvin<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.<\/span>
\nGeorge Carey<\/span><\/p>\n

People have described me as a “management bishop” but I say to my critics, “Jesus was a management expert too.”<\/span>
\nGeorge Carey<\/span><\/p>\n

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.<\/span>
\nThomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

A church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.<\/span>
\nHenry Chadwick<\/span><\/p>\n

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.<\/span>
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.<\/span>
\nWilliam Cowper<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman’s asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person’s demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.<\/span>
\nMary Daly<\/span><\/p>\n

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.<\/span>
\nDaniel Defoe<\/span><\/p>\n

His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his “simple plan,” to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can.<\/span>
\nSir Francis Doyle<\/span><\/p>\n

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.<\/span>
\nHenry Fielding<\/span><\/p>\n

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.<\/span>
\nPeter T. Forsyth<\/span><\/p>\n

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.<\/span>
\nThomas Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.<\/span>
\nCharles De Gaulle<\/span><\/p>\n

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.<\/span>
\nBilly Graham<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.<\/span>
\nVance Havner<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave — with both ends kicked out.<\/span>
\nVance Havner<\/span><\/p>\n

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament, normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.<\/span>
\nVance Havner<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.<\/span>
\nO. S. Hawkins<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m a priest, not a priestess. “Priestess” implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world – it’s better than being invisible.<\/span>
\nCarter Heyward<\/span><\/p>\n

But a priest’s life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one – pointed – a compass, not a weathercock.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.<\/span>
\nRobert Green Ingersoll<\/span><\/p>\n

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson )<\/span><\/p>\n

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.<\/span>
\nJames Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther<\/span><\/p>\n

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.<\/span>
\nDwight L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church…is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.<\/span>
\nDwight L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.<\/span>
\nCharles C. Morrison<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.<\/span>
\nJohn R. Mott<\/span><\/p>\n

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.<\/span>
\nIris Murdoch<\/span><\/p>\n

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.<\/span>
\nL. L. Nash<\/span><\/p>\n

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.<\/span>
\nEdward Norman<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

My own mind is my own church.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.<\/span>
\nWilliam Penn<\/span><\/p>\n

Too hot to go to church? What about Hell?<\/span>
\nOhio, Poster in Dayton<\/span><\/p>\n

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

He who is near the Church is often far from God.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.<\/span>
\nIrish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

In a small house God has His corner; in a big house, He has to stand in the hall.<\/span>
\nSwedish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.<\/span>
\nCardinal Joseph Ratzinger<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.<\/span>
\nJohn Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.<\/span>
\nCharlie Shedd<\/span><\/p>\n

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is “I will see you in the vestry after service.”<\/span>
\nSydney Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/span>
\nSydney Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.<\/span>
\nJohn Spong<\/span><\/p>\n

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.<\/span>
\nRobert Louis Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.<\/span>
\nJonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

A little, round, fat, oily man of God.<\/span>
\nJames Thomson<\/span><\/p>\n

I think a bishop who doesn’t give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.<\/span>
\nJames Thomson<\/span><\/p>\n

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.<\/span>
\nA. W. Tozer<\/span><\/p>\n

A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady’s voice blurted out loud and clear, “Anybody been saved here lately?”<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.<\/span>
\nSir Henry Wotton<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.<\/span>
\nFrancois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share.<\/span>
\nAlice Walker<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.<\/span>
\nSimone Weil<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.<\/span>
\nJohn Wesley<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t go to church; kneeling bags my nylons.<\/span>
\nBilly Wilder<\/span><\/p>\n

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.<\/span>
\nJames Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.<\/span>
\nJimmy Carter<\/span><\/p>\n

O unbelievers, I serve not what you serve and you are not serving what I serve, nor am I serving what you have served, neither are you serving what I serve. To you your religion, and to me my religion!<\/span>
\nQur’an<\/span><\/p>\n

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other’s throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.<\/span>
\nFrancois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!<\/span>
\nIsrael Zangwill<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.<\/span>
\nCharles L. Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: “the Son, O how unlike the Father!” First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.<\/span>
\nPhillips Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of people say to me, “Why did you kill Christ?” “I dunno… it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.” “We killed him because he didn’t want to become a doctor, that’s why we killed him.”<\/span>
\nLenny Bruce<\/span><\/p>\n

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.<\/span>
\nJohn Bunyan<\/span><\/p>\n

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything\u2026 our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.<\/span>
\nJohn Calvin<\/span><\/p>\n

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.<\/span>
\nLydia M. Child<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.<\/span>
\nClement of Alexandria<\/span><\/p>\n

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.<\/span>
\nDenis Diderot<\/span><\/p>\n

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being\u2026 can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.<\/span>
\nHenry Drummond<\/span><\/p>\n

By a Carpenter mankind was made; and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.<\/span>
\nDesiderius Erasmus<\/span><\/p>\n

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.<\/span>
\nMikhail Gorbachev<\/span><\/p>\n

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, “Because He did, I can forgive you.”<\/span>
\nBilly Graham<\/span><\/p>\n

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.<\/span>
\nBilly Graham<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ is God’s everything for man’s total need.<\/span>
\nRichard Halverson<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.<\/span>
\nCarl F. H. Henry<\/span><\/p>\n

I wouldn’t put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.<\/span>
\nDavid Jenkins<\/span><\/p>\n

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?<\/span>
\nJames Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n

No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world, which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.<\/span>
\nJohn Knox<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus says, “I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are.”<\/span>
\nChris Lyons<\/span><\/p>\n

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.<\/span>
\nAlexander Maclaren<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest thing about any civilization is the human person, and the greatest thing about this person is the possibility of his encounter with the person of Jesus Christ.<\/span>
\nCharles Malik<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble.<\/span>
\nRussell W. Maltby<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.<\/span>
\nMother Teresa<\/span><\/p>\n

The word “Christianity” is already a misunderstanding — in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

A heroic figure… not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on him.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.<\/span>
\nCamille Paglia<\/span><\/p>\n

Only Christ could have conceived Christ.<\/span>
\nJoseph Parker<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.<\/span>
\nBlaise Pascal<\/span><\/p>\n

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.<\/span>
\nWilliam Lyon Phelps<\/span><\/p>\n

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet – a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.<\/span>
\nFrederick W. Robertson<\/span><\/p>\n

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.<\/span>
\nSt. Francis of Assisi<\/span><\/p>\n

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.<\/span>
\nPercy Bysshe Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.<\/span>
\nAngelus Silesius<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.<\/span>
\nSt. Athanasius<\/span><\/p>\n

I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.<\/span>
\nThomas Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man’s part in the real battle of life.<\/span>
\nHenry Van Dyke<\/span><\/p>\n

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.<\/span>
\nSimone Weil<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.<\/span>
\nWalter Bagehot<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.<\/span>
\nJames Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.<\/span>
\nJohn Kenneth Galbraith<\/span><\/p>\n

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.<\/span>
\nDean William R. Inge<\/span><\/p>\n

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.<\/span>
\nWright C. Mills<\/span><\/p>\n

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?<\/span>
\nEdgar Quinet<\/span><\/p>\n

All of our institutions must now turn their full attention to the great task ahead – to humanize our lives and thus to humanize our society.<\/span>
\nJames Perkins<\/span><\/p>\n

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.<\/span>
\nGeorge Santayana<\/span><\/p>\n

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

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