It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.
The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a god of love to men, they will make use of him to sanctify their villainies and their crimes "for the good fight" as well as the massacres en masse, blessing priests leading the way.
The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!
No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.
Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.
If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us.
Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.
My goal is to destroy Christianity.
The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it. " The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"
Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.
Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
Christianity isn't all that complicated. . . it's Jesus.
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary