CHRISTIANITY

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

2. A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school to Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.—H. W. BEECHER
   

3. Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.—AMBROSE BIERCE
   

4. The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.—BYRON
   

5. Considered as a whole, the Christian religion of late ages has been continually dissipating itself into Metaphysics; and threatens now to disappear, as some rivers do, in deserts of barren sand.—CARLYLE, Sir Walter Scott

6. Christianity is not a theory or speculation but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.—COLERIDGE
   

7. Christianity proves itself, as the sun is seen by its own light. Its evidence is involved in its excellence.—COLERIDGE
   

8. Christianity, rightly understood, is identical with the highest philosophy. The essential doctrines of Christianity are necessary and eternal truths of reason.—COLERIDGE
   

9. Though a great man may, by a rare possibility, be an infidel, yet an intellect of the highest order must build upon Christianity.—DE QUINCEY
   

10. His Christianity was muscular.—DISRAELI, Endymion
    

11. Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.—DOSTOYEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov
    

12. There is no leveler like Christianity but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.—JONATHAN EDWARDS
    

13. Christianity is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, a truth-speaker, and bent on serving, teaching, and uplifting men. It teaches that to love the All-perfect is happiness.—EMERSON
    

14. He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity, will revolutionize the world.—FRANKLIN
    

15. The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ has transmitted to us, is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.—FRANKLIN
    

16. Christianity always suits us well enough so long as we suit it. A mere mental difficulty is not hard to deal with. With most of us it is not reason that makes faith hard, but life.—JEAN INGELOW
    

17. Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

18. Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.—JACQUES MARITAIN, I Believe
    

19. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty,—I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.—NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
    

20. Religion is a process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year.—AUSTIN O'MALLEY
    

21. Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.—PASCAL
    

22. Christianity is more than history. It is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests or expresses a truth, which man needs assent to or to put into practice.—NOAH PORTER

23. You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.—RABELAIS
    

24. O father Abram! what these Christians are,
    Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
    The thoughts of others!—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

25. The Christian doctrine of the infinite worth of every single human being was the disguised expression of man's revolt against slavery.—JOHN STRACHEY, I Believe
    

26. See how these Christians love one another.—TERTULLIAN, Apologeticus
    

27. Christianity is the companion of liberty in its conflicts—the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.—DE TOCQUEVILLE
    

28. Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.—DANIEL WEBSTER
    

29. A Christian is the highest style of man.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts
    

30. Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan—spoiled.—ISRAEL ZANGWILL