Quotations and Poems

» “Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.”
– Fred A. Allen

»  ”Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.”
– Matthew Arnold

»  ”Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.”
– James Baldwin

»  ”A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

»  ”The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

»  ”Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.”
– William Blake

»  ”The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
– William Blake

»  ”Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord’s Prayer.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

»  ”How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.”
– Olympia Brown

»  ”People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
– Samuel Butler

»  ”If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.”
– Samuel Butler

»  ”I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
– Lord Byron

»  ”The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”
– Herb Caen

»  ”What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.”
– Albert Camus

»  ”With two thousand years of Christianity behind him… a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine

»  ”The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

»  ”He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

»  ”The question is not ”How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, ”What about Christ’s will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?””
– Robert A. Cook

»  ”Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

»  ”No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.”
– William Faulkner

»  ”If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

»  ”White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.”
– Nikki Giovanni

»  ”The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
– Billy Graham

»  ”Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”
– Billy Graham

»  ”Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.”
– Richard Halverson

»  ”Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ”enjoy favor with all the people.” The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!”
– O. S. Hawkins

»  ”I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.”
– Patrick Henry

»  ”The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.”
– Lynn Harold Hough

»  ”It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.”
– Lynn Harold Hough

»  ”Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.”
– Samuel Johnson

»  ”God doesn’t have any grandchildren.”
– Eli Stanley Jones

»  ”Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.”
– Thomas