Addison Joseph 1672-1719
(dying words)
See in what peace a Christian can die.
Arnold Thomas 1795-1842
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Beecher Henry Ward 1813-1887
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936
What's Wrong with the World
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Doyle Sir Francis 1810-1888
‘The Unobstrusive Christian'
His creed no parson ever knew,
For this was still his ‘simple plan',
To have with clergymen to do
As little as a Christian can.
Gibbon Edward 1737-1794
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Keblle John 1792-1866
The Christian Year ‘Septuagesima'
There is a book, who runs may read,
Which heavenly truth imparts,
And all the lore its scholars need,
Pure eyes and Christian hearts.
Luther Martin 1483-1546
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essays ... ‘Machiavelli'
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
Melville Herman 1819-1891
Moby Dick
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's
misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Merchant of Venice
My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
Taylor Ann and Taylor Jane 1782-1866 and 1783-1824
Hymns for Infant Minds „A Child's Hymn of Praise"
I thank the goodness and the grace
Which on my birth have smiled,
And made me, in these Christian days,
A happy English child.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.
Ybarra Thomas Russell
‘The Christian'
A Christian is a man who feels
Repentance on a Sunday
For what he did on Saturday
And is going to do on Monday.
Zangwill Israel 1864-1926
Children of the Ghetto
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Anonymous
Muscular Christianity.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
Endymion
His Christianity was muscular.
Freud Sigmund 1856-1939
Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
Gide André 1869-1951
Les Faux Monnayeurs
The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.
Inge William R. 1860-1954
Christianity is good news; not good advice.
Lewis C.S. 1898-1963
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen.
Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
Pégui Charles 1873-1914
Basic Verities
The sinner is at the heart of Christianity ... No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
Saki (Hector Hugh Monro) 1870-1916
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion ... there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
Austin Warren R. 1877-1962
(in a debate on the Middle East)
[Jews and Arabs should settle their differences] like good Christians.
BYROM John 1692-1763
Christians, awake! Salute the happy morn,
Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded
That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Tertullian c.160-c.220
Apologeticus
See how these Christians love one another.