best quotations about
Christianity |
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Quotations
 | Jesus Christ was the greatest republican. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 14 likes |
 | Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 12 likes |
 | The fact that Christians exist is a proof that God does not exist. — Louis Scutenaire, 1905-1987, Belgian surrealist & anarchist 10 likes |
 | Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | You have won, O Galilean. — Julian the Apostate, 331-363 AD, Roman emperor (his last words dying after the battle in Maranga against Persians) 9 likes |
| In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 8 likes |
 | If you think about it, Christ is the only truly successful anarchist. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 8 likes |
 | If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 8 likes |
| Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
 | I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 7 likes |
 | I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 6 likes |
 | Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple. — Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-American writer 6 likes |
| It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. — Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-American writer 6 likes |
 | Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
| Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes |
| Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
| One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 5 likes |
| What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 4 likes |
| In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 4 likes |
| The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 4 likes |
| The form of Christianity that developed in Europe and later spread to America and the rest of the world was the last great creation of the ancient pagan world. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Modern Christianity is a encyclopaedia of traditional superstition. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
 | Above all, fear the judgment of those who judge you in the name of Him who said: “Judge not, that ye be not judged”. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist 4 likes |
 | All history is incomprehensible without Christ. — Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian 4 likes |
 | And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 4 likes |
 | In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 4 likes |
 | The Christianization of Europe, the integration of Christianity into the European mental system, was the most disastrous event in all of history to date - catastrophe in the true sense of the word. — Alain de Benoist, 1943-, French philosopher 4 likes |
 | The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
| The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
| I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 3 likes |
 | There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
 | The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
 | The French Revolution was the most important step for mankind since the advent of Jesus Christ. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 2 likes |
| The Bible is literature, not dogma. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 2 likes |
 | The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
 | The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
 | In Hebrew, His name is Jesus, in Greek, Soter, in Latin, Salvator; but men say Christus in Greek, Messias in Hebrew, Unctus in Latin, that is, King and Priest. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 2 likes |
 | What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author (was against Greek philosophy) 1 likes |
 | The Gospels are the last and most wonderful expression of Greek genius, as the Iliad was its first expression. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans. |
 | So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. |
| Plotinus is both an end and a beginning: an end as regards the Greeks, a beginning as regards Christendom. |
 | Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. |
 | It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. |
 | Christianity has done a lot for love by making it a sin. |
 | Christianity in the early days was an initiation where one revealed a true divine magic. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
| Christianity was preached by the ignorant and believed by the learned. And in this way is like no other thing. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | No life in the whole history of man has been so misinterpreted, so woefully misunderstood as Christ's. |
| It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism. |
| Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. |
| The Bible is God's love letter to us. |
 | The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it. |
| Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything. |
| Christians are made, not born. Fiunt non nascuntur Christiani. |
| God the Father is a deep root; the Son is the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty and fragrance. |
| Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. |
| The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. |
| The Christian is a bad pagan, converted by a bad Jew. |
| The spiritual meaning of Christianity is complete with the death of Christ on the cross; there was no need for the icing on the cake which is the Resurrection. |
| The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it. |
| There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. |
 | Paganism is the other Old Testament of the Church. |
Funny Quotes
 | If Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be—a Christian. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 23 likes |
 | I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
 | Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 2 likes |
 | Alright, let’s admit it, we Jews killed Christ – but it was only for three days. |
| If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. |
