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I am always amused by Christians who try so very hard to defend their position with reason and logic. They are like standing on top of a ladder with their tools and gadgets, straining their necks looking skywards for the leaks, trying to fix the roof amidst the rain. What they do not realize, of course, is that the roof isn't leaking -- it isn't there.
-Anon.
Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a Mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that Mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little Child.
-Cecil Frances Alexander, "Once in Royal David's City"
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukka' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukka!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!
-Dave Barry
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
-Samuel Butler (poet), The Analogy of Religion, 1756
The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now ‘through a glass darkly,’ but face to face. It seems undeniable that somewhere within him, deny it or doubt it as he may, every man has faith in God–that in his best moments he realizes that he has it, and that in his best acts he shows it. ‘Christian’ is no longer a term of opprobrium; – to say any man is a ‘real Christian’ is undeniably the highest honor we can confer upon him. Every man has his doubts at times – in them there is often much of real faith. Personally, I believe every human being has faith in God, in spite of the reaction of his fallible brain material. Nay, I am more and more hopeful that it is true that all men have it."
-Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, Kerr, J. Lennox. Wilfred Grenfell, His Life and Work. c. 1959, Toronto: ON, The Grenfell Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
-Mark Hopkins
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
-Norman Vincent Peale
When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world … look to Christ.
-Pope John Paul II, [To 19,000 students in New York City], October 3, 1979
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
-Evelyn Waugh
-Anon.
Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a Mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that Mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little Child.
-Cecil Frances Alexander, "Once in Royal David's City"
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukka' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukka!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!
-Dave Barry
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
-Samuel Butler (poet), The Analogy of Religion, 1756
The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now ‘through a glass darkly,’ but face to face. It seems undeniable that somewhere within him, deny it or doubt it as he may, every man has faith in God–that in his best moments he realizes that he has it, and that in his best acts he shows it. ‘Christian’ is no longer a term of opprobrium; – to say any man is a ‘real Christian’ is undeniably the highest honor we can confer upon him. Every man has his doubts at times – in them there is often much of real faith. Personally, I believe every human being has faith in God, in spite of the reaction of his fallible brain material. Nay, I am more and more hopeful that it is true that all men have it."
-Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, Kerr, J. Lennox. Wilfred Grenfell, His Life and Work. c. 1959, Toronto: ON, The Grenfell Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
-Mark Hopkins
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
-Norman Vincent Peale
When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world … look to Christ.
-Pope John Paul II, [To 19,000 students in New York City], October 3, 1979
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
-Evelyn Waugh