“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”
“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.”
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.”
“A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.”
“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
“Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.”
“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”
“There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.”
“A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”
“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.”
“If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.”
“The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.”
“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.”
“If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.”
“Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”
“The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.”
“The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.”
“A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.”
“Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.”
“He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.”
“Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.”
“How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.”
“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
“Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is someone who comes from Boston, A Christian is one who comes from Christ.”
“The question is not ''How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, ''What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?''”
“It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.”
“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.”
“Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.”