quotations and passages about Christianity

Let love be your greatest aim.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Jesus is God spelling himself out in language
that humans can understand.

S.D. Gordon

The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

Desmond Tutu

In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment
of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of things, throwing self-care to the winds,
in the sure and certain faith that you will not be deserted, forsaken nor betrayed, and that
your ultimate interests are perfectly secure in the hands of the Great Companion.
This insight is the center, the kernel, the growing point of the Christian religion, which,
when we have it, all else is secure, and when we have it not, all else is precarious.

L.P. Jacks

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves
with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other
and forgive whatever grievances you have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues, put on love, which binds them all together
in perfect unity.

The Apostle Paul
in Colossians 3:12-14

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; He acts the parable
of divine love by saving us.
That is the Christian faith.

Austin Farber

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

C.S. Lewis

The Christian life that is joyless is
a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

Maltie D. Babcock

A Christian is nothing but a sinful person who has put him or herself
to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

D.T. Niles

Christianity is different from all other religions.
They are the story of humanity's search for God.
The Gospel is the story of God's search for humans.

Dewi Morgan

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Phillips Brooks

Christianity is the least concerned about religion of any of the world's faiths. It is primarily concerned about life.

T.D. Price

The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor,
ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast
in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as
to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that
in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is
in some degree better because they lived.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people are true Christians who do not
think constantly of how they can lift
their brother and sister, how they can
assist their friends, how they can
enlighten mankind, how they can make
virtue the rule of conduct in the circle
in which they live.

Woodrow Wilson

The first thing that we have to realize is a fact of fundamental importance, because it means
breaking away from all the ordinary prepossessions of orthodoxy. The plain fact is that
Jesus taught no theology whatever. His teaching is entirely spiritual or metaphysical.
Historical Christianity, unfortunately, has largely concerned itself with theological and
doctrinal questions which, strange to say, have no part whatever in the Gospel teaching.
It will startle many good people to learn that all the doctrines and theologies of the churches
are human inventions built up by their authors out of their own mentalities. . . .There is absolutely
no system of theology of doctrine to be found in the Bible; it simply is not there.

Emmet Fox

Joni
Eareckson
Tada

I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means
"little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be
bold to call ourselves Christians and bear the stamp of his character
and reputation. When people find out the you are a Christian,
they should already have an idea of who you are and what
you are like simply because you bear such a precious name.

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Why not make the following experiment, which will not only be thrillingly interesting,
but will certainly teach you more in one day than you could learn from books or lectures
in many weeks.
Here is what you have to do: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly
as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the truth of the statements
that God has all power and infinite intelligence, and that His nature is
infinite goodness and love.
To think in this manner all day will be the most difficult thing, because it is so subtle.
To speak in accordance with these truths will be easier, if you are vigilant.
To act in accordance with them will be the easiest part, although it may require
much in the way of moral courage.

Emmet Fox

It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention
that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding
of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day
in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged
by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else
without reserve to the will and power of God.

Fenelon

True Christians, who have power over their own will, may live nobly and happily
and enjoy a clear heaven within the serenity of their own minds perpetually.
When the sea of this world is roughest and most tempestuous about them,
then they can ride safely at anchor within the haven by a sweet compliance
of their will with God's will. They can look about themselves, and with an even
and indifferent mind behold the world either to smile or frown upon them. Also,
they will not abate in the least their contentment for all the ill and unkind usage
they meet with in this life. They who have mastery over their own will,
feel no violence from without, find no contests within. When God calls them
out of this state of mortality, they find in themselves a power to lay
down their own lives, and it is not so much taken from them,
as quietly and freely surrendered up by them.

Dr. John Smith

We cannot say this or that trouble will not befall, yet we may,
by the help of the Spirit, say, Nothing that does befall
will make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.

Richard Sibbes

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like the foot soldiers, who hear nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle they are in, but hear plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

George Eliot

An immortal soul, from its very nature, cannot find what it needs anywhere except
in God Himself. True religion begins in the heart. It is not a mere set of rules
to be obeyed--an example to be copied. It is Christ coming into the heart and dwelling there.

James R. Miller

Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers,
but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity,
He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ:
If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter,
our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.

Joseph Parker

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

George Bernard Shaw

This is a cheerful world as I see it from my garden under the shadows
of my vines. But if I were to ascend some high mountain and look out
over the wide lands, you know very well what I should see: brigands
on the highways, pirates on the sea, armies fighting, cities burning;
in the amphitheaters men murdered to please applauding crowds;
selfishness and cruelty and misery and despair under all roofs.
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered
in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret.
They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasure
of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not.
They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world.
These people, Donatus, are the Christians--and I am one of them.

St. Cyprian