Christianity quotes, aphorisms, statements, say
John Gresham Machen I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard The issue is not about the truth of Christianity but about the individual's relation to Christianity...
Arthur Keith Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard It is subjectivity that Christianity is concerned with, and it is only in subjectivity that its truth exists, if it exists at all; objectively, Christianity has no existence.
John Lennon Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy The Christianity of the first centuries recognized as productions of good art, only legends, lives of saints, sermons, prayers, and hymn-singing evoking love of Christ, emotion at his life, desire to follow his example, renunciation of worldly life, humility, and the love of others; all productions transmitting feelings of personal enjoyment they considered to be bad, and therefore rejected... This was so among the Christians of the first centuries who accepted Christ teachings, if not quite in its true form, at least not yet in the perverted, paganized form in which it was accepted subsequently.
But besides this Christianity, from the time of the wholesale conversion of whole nations by order of the authorities, as in the days of Constantine, Charlemagne and Vladimir, there appeared another, a Church Christianity, which was nearer to paganism than to Christ's teaching. And this Church Christianity... did not acknowledge the fundamental and essential positions of true Christianity — the direct relationship

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