Quotes: Christianity

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth’s surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

Christianity is part of the common law.

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

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus – His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man’s ascent.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

For centuries many of the world’s distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.