C Quotes
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“Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?”
“Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous and the word gets out that you're a Christian, every church is saying, "Even Jane Fonda." People come up to me in airports and throw their arms around me.”
“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.”
“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.”
Source: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”
Source: Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931
“Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.”
Source: The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918
“Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.”
Source: Escape from Reason
“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.”
“Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.”
Source: Systematic Theology, Vol 1
“Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration.”
“Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.”
“Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.”
Source: Flames of Freedom
“Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.”
“Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Christianity stands for principles that are timeless rather than bending to those that suit the times. And the hope that I have is that time will leave one standing and the other without legs or ground.”
“Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.”
“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.”
“Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise.”
“Christianity still makes sense because it was Christ who:
- Never Judged a person by his/her appearance [Mark 10:46-51]
- Never Looked down with disdain on someone just because
that person does not come to His church [John 4:1-26]
- Never kept back his miracle of Healing, just because the person
does not belonged to His own community [Matthew 15:25-28]
- Shared His Love and Grace with both poor [Luke 14:13] and rich equally [Mark 10:21]
- Chose to Forgive even those whom 'His chosen ones' looks down with contempt. [Luke 7:36-50]
- Proclaim the Truth about Gospel to a lost soul even if there is
no one to acknowledge Him publicly [John 3:1-3]
- Preferred to keep quiet even if He was 'wrongly accused'. [Matthew 27:12]
- Who ranks the Giver on the basis if his/her Intent of giving
and not just Extent of giving [Luke 21:1-4]
- Chose to empty His pockets and desist resources available to Him,
so that He can teach to Serve First [John 13:14] and lead later.
- Eagerly listened to the one who came asking for help and delivered them from
their issues rather than opening His book of sorrows and
issues to make them feel awkward and ignored. [Mark 7:31-37]
...Its a shame that it is we Christians, who at times Disappoint our Christ and Dishonor His name by acting just opposite to His nature and character in our lives.
"World is not disappointed by Christianity, its tired of, us Christians.”
“Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.”
Source: Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved
“Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.”
“Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.”
“Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.”
“Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.”
“Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.”
Source: Emerson's Complete Works
“Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.”
Source: Anti-Oedipus
“Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.”
“Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.”
“Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.”
“Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.”
Source: How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .
“Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.”
Source: Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography
“Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so many profess to believe in and follow. -Jason Neville Versey”
“Christianity voids any significance that would otherwise be attributed to a human life. It reduces all the good things you’ve done and all the bad things you’ve done to, well, nothing. All the good you’ve done won’t matter if you don’t have Jesus. All the bad you’ve done won’t matter if you do have Jesus. In either case, what you do doesn’t matter.”
Source: Portrait of an Infidel: The Acerbic Account of How a Passionate Christian Became an Ardent Atheist
“Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.”
Source: The Occult: A History
“Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly. It is like handcuffs to the mind and spirit and is nothing but destructive to mankind. In fact I don't really see Christianity as a religion. It is more like a spiritual plague, a mass psychosis, and it should first and foremost be treated as a problem to be solved by the medical science. Christianity is a diagnosis. It's like Islam and the other Asian religions, a HIV/AIDS of the spirit and mind.”
“Christianity was derailed when Bible Schools became certification centers for true apostles of Christ. Where is the Holy Spirit? John 16:13”
Source: Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
“Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.”
“Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.”
“Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.”