Quotes on Christianity

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.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.