The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.
Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
Nothing in Christianity is original.
If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.
Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.
Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.
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.