142 Quotes About Christianity

Christianity certainly involves hardship and discipline. But it is founded on the solid rock of old fashioned happiness. Jesus is in the happiness business.

Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

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

If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

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.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

That world outside there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost; Christianity without Christ; forgiveness without repentance; salvation without regeneration; politics without God; and Heaven without Hell.

If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.

Christianity is not just repeating John 3:16 or Acts 16:31; it is yielding the heart and the life to Christ.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

If I get well and write a book on Christianity, about which we have talked, we can attend more fully to this matter; but if I should be taken away suddenly, I do not wish to leave any duty of this kind unperformed. I want to leave somewhere a declaration of my belief in Christianity.

Secularism, with its moral relativism, is in direct opposition to Christianity and its absolute morality. The battle is between these two worldviews--one that stands on God's Word and one that accepts man's opinions.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

To dwell on the past simply causes failure in the present. While you are sitting down and bemoaning the past and regretting all the things you have not done, you are crippling yourself and preventing yourself from working in the present. Is that Christianity? Of course it is not.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants and neighbors.

The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.