CHRISTIANITY

Arnold, Thomas
The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these others men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after men.

Azarias, Father
With Christianity came a new civilization, and a new order of ideas.—Tastes were cultivated, manners refined, views broadened, and natures spiritualized.

Bacon, Francis
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

There never was found in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect, or religion, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of the community, and increase private and particular good as the holy Christian faith.—Hence, it clearly appears that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men, who gave the laws of nature to the creatures.

Beckwith, E. G.
It matters little whether or no Christianity makes men richer. But it does make them truer, purer, nobler. It is not more wealth that the world wants, a thousandth part as much as it is more character; not more investments, but more integrity; not money, but manhood; not regal palaces, but regal souls.

Beecher, Henry Ward
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. "By their fruits ye shall know them."

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants, and neighbors.

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell
Christianity is intensely practical — She has no trait more striking than her common sense.

Cass, Lewis
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.

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

Christianity proves itself, as the sun is seen by its own light.—Its evidence is involved in its excellence.

Christianity, rightly understood, is identical with the highest philosophy; the essential doctrines of Christianity are necessary and eternal truths of reason.

Croly, George
Christianity has no ceremonial.—It has forms, for forms are essential, to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the body or mind.

Cumming, John
Christianity is not a religion of transcendental abstraction, or brilliant speculation; its children are neither monks, mystics, epicureans, nor stoics.—It is the religion of loving, speaking, and doing, as well as believing.—It is a life as well as a creed.—It has a rest for the heart, a word for the tongue, a way for the feet, and a work for the hand. The same Lord who is the foundation of our hopes, the object of our faith, and the subject of our love, is also the model of our conduct, for "He went about doing good, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps."

Drummond, William
"Learn of me," says the philosopher, "and ye shall find restlessness." " Learn of me," says Christ, "and ye shall  find  rest."

Christ built no church, wrote no book, left no money, and erected no monuments; yet show me ten square miles in the whole earth without Christianity, where the life of man and the purity of women are respected, and I will give up Christianity.

Edwards, Jonathan
Prophecy and miracles argue the imperfection of the state of the church, rather than its perfection. For they are means designed by God as a stay or support, or as a leading string to the church in its infancy, rather than as means adapted to it in its full growth.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Christianity is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, a truth-speaker, and bent on serving, teaching, and uplifting men.— It teaches that to love the All-perfect is happiness.

Eucken, Rudolf
We not only can be, but we must be Christians; only, however, if we recognize that Christianity is progressive historical development still in the making.

Field, Henry Martyn
The religion of Christ has made a Republic like ours possible; and the more we have of this religion the better the Republic.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Franklin, Benjamin
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity, will revolutionize the world.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ has transmitted to us, is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

Gibson, John Bannister
Give Christianity a common law trial; submit the evidence pro and con to an impartial jury under the direction of a competent court, and the verdict will assuredly be in its favor.

Hall, Robert
If ever Christianity appears in its power it is when it erects its trophies upon the tomb; when it takes up its votaries where the world leaves them; and fills the breast with immortal hope in  dying  moments.

When a man is opposed to Christianity, it is because Christianity is opposed to him. Your infidel is usually a person who resents the opposition of Christianity to that in his nature and life which Jesus came to rebuke and destroy.

Huntington, Frederick D.
Christendom is accounted for only by Christianity; and Christianity burst too suddenly into the world to be of the world.

Ingelow, Jean
Christianity always suits us well enough so long as we suit it. A mere mental difficulty is not hard to deal with. With most of us it is not reason that makes faith hard, but life.

Jebb, John
Christianity did not come from Heaven to be the amusement of an idle hour, or the food of mere imagination; to be "as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and playeth well upon an instrument." It is intended to be the guide and companion of all our hours—the serious occupation of our whole existence.

Jefferson, Thomas
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Lawrence, Sir George St. Patrick
Christianity everywhere gives dignity to labor, sanctity to marriage, and brotherhood to man.—Where it may not convince, it enlightens; where it does not  convert it restrains; where  it does not renew, it refines; where it does not sanctify, it subdues and elevates.—It is profitable alike for this world, and for the world that is to come.

Luthardt, Christoph Ernst
Heathenism was the seeking religion; Judaism, the hoping religion; Christianity is the reality of what heathenism sought and Judaism hoped for.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality; in its exquisite adaption to the human heart; in the facility with which it accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect; in the consolation which it bears to every house of mourning; and in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

Muller, Friedrich Max
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Musset, Alfred de
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.—It opened the palaces of Constantinople to the barbarians, but it opened the doors of cottages to the consoling angels of Christ.

Parker, Joseph
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

Parkhurst, Charles Henry
Christianity as an idea begins with thinking of God in the same way that a true son thinks of his father; Christianity as a life, begins with feeling and acting toward God as a true son feels and acts toward his father.

Phelps, Austin
Through its whole history the Christian religion has developed supreme affinities for best things. For the noblest culture, for purest morals, for magnificent literatures, for most finished civilizations, for most energetic national temperaments, for most enterprising races, for the most virile and progressive stock of mind, it has manifested irresistible sympathies. Judging its future by its past, no other system of human thought has so splendid a destiny. It is the only system which possesses undying youth.

The tendency of Christian ideas is to mental growth.—The mind must expand that takes them in with cordial sympathy. The conversion of Saul of Tarsus wrought in him an intellectual as well as a moral revolution.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality.—It builds ethics on religion.

Pierson, Arthur Tappan
Whatever men may think of religion, the historic fact is, that in proportion as the institutions of Christianity lose their hold upon the multitudes, the fabric of society is in peril.

Porter, Noah
Christianity is more than history. It is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests or expresses a truth, which man needs assent to or to put into practice.

Roosevelt, Theodore
The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on his task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to his own duties as well as to his rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in his power lies, so that when death comes he may feel that mankind is in some degree better because he lived.

Simpson, Matthew
However much the priestlings of science may prate against the Bible, the high priests of science are in accord with Christianity.

Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar
Christianity will gain by every step that is taken in the knowledge of man.

Storrs, Richard Salter
Christianity is the basis of republican government, its bond of cohesion, and its life-giving law.—More than the Magna Charta itself the Gospels are the roots of English liberty.—That Magna Charta, and the Petition of Right, with our completing Declaration, was possible only because the Gospels had been before them.

Thompson, C. L.
Christianity has its best exponents in the lives of the saints.—It is only when our creeds pass into the iron of the blood that they become vital and organic.—Faith if not transmuted into character, has lost its power.

Thompson, Joseph Parrish
Where science speaks of improvement, Christianity speaks of renovation; where science speaks of development, Christianity speaks of sanctification; where science speaks of progress, Christianity speaks of perfection.

Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henry de
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts—the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Van Dyke, Henry J.
Christianity requires two things from every man who believes in it: first, to acquire property by just and righteous means, and second, to look not only on his own things, but also on the things of others.

The task and triumph of Christianity is to make men and nations true and just and upright in all their dealings, and to bring all law, as well as all conduct, into subjection and conformity to the law of God.