# Quotes about Christianity - Quotes: 19 - Authors: 15 - Broader topic: [Quotes about religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.json ## Quotes > Slavery is an evil of the first magnitude, ... and contrary to all the genuine principles of Christianity, and yet carried on by men denominated thereby. [Quobna Ottobah Cugoano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quobna-ottobah-cugoano.md) · [Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quobna-ottobah-cugoano/thoughts-and-sentiments-on-the-evil-of-slavery.md) · p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quobna-ottobah-cugoano/thoughts-and-sentiments-on-the-evil-of-slavery/slavery-is-an-evil.md) Topics: [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [slavery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > We all have kindly impulses, fostered by two thousand years of Christian teaching, gentle Jesus, and love thy neighbour, but we have the killer instinct, too, the murderous impulse of the hunter... [George MacDonald Fraser](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald-fraser.md) · [Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald-fraser/quartered-safe-out-here-a-recollection-of-the-war-in-burma.md) · p. 175 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald-fraser/quartered-safe-out-here-a-recollection-of-the-war-in-burma/we-all-have.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions. [Alan Paton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-paton.md) · [Cry, The Beloved Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-paton/cry-the-beloved-country.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-paton/cry-the-beloved-country/the-truth-is-our.md) Topics: [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [civilization](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/civilization.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. [Derrick Jensen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen.md) · [The Culture of Make Believe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen/the-culture-of-make-believe.md) · p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen/the-culture-of-make-believe/to-believe-christianity.md) Topics: [slavery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us. [Adam Smith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith.md) · [The Theory of Moral Sentiments](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments/as-to-love.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. [Ann Coulter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter.md) · [If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter/if-democrats-had-any-brains-theyd-be-republicans.md) · p. 77 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter/if-democrats-had-any-brains-theyd-be-republicans/im-a-christian.md) Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it. [Ann Coulter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter.md) · [Godless](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter/godless.md) · p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter/godless/democrats-cannot-conceive.md) Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > “Alec, ‘justice’ is not a divine concept; it is a human illusion. The very basis of the Judeo-Christian code is injustice, the scapegoat system. The scapegoat sacrifice runs all through the Old Testament, then it reaches its height in the New Testament with the notion of the Martyred Redeemer. How can justice possibly be served by loading your sins on another? Whether it be a lamb having its throat cut ritually, or a Messiah nailed to a cross and ‘dying for your sins.’ Somebody should tell all of Yahweh’s followers, Jews and Christians, that there is no such thing as a free lunch.” [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Job: A Comedy of Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice.md) · p. 411 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice/alec-justice-is-not.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > ...for ferocity there is nothing on Earth equal a Christian bishop hunting "heresy", as they call any opinion contrary to their own. [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md) · [Julian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/for-ferocity-there.md) Topics: [fanaticism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fanaticism.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition. [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md) · [Julian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/modern-christianity-is-a-encyclopedia.md) Topics: [superstitions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/superstitions.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt—the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did. [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md) · [Julian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/the-malice-of-a-true.md) Topics: [fanaticism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fanaticism.md), [tolerance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others. [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville.md) · [Democracy in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/muhammad-brought-down.md) Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live. [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville.md) · [Democracy in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/the-americans-combine.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten. [Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md) · [Cosmos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos.md) · p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos/the-platonists-and.md) Topics: [the universe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ. [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md) · [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/even-those-who.md) Topics: [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > Leonidas died for his country before Socrates declared that patriotism was a virtue; Sparta was sober before Socrates extolled sobriety; there were plenty of virtuous men in Greece before he defined virtue. But among the men of his own time where did Jesus find that pure and lofty morality of which he is both the teacher and pattern? The voice of loftiest wisdom arose among the fiercest fanaticism, the simplicity of the most heroic virtues did honour to the most degraded of nations. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/leonidas-died-for.md) Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > "Maybe this crime belongs to the history of Jewish superstitions," murmmured Lönnrot. > > "Like Christianity," the editor put in. [Jorge Luis Borges](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges.md) · [Ficciones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges/ficciones.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges/ficciones/maybe-this-crime.md) Topics: [irony](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony.md), [superstitions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/superstitions.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md) > It is only natural that I should constantly have revolved in my mind the question of the relationship of the symbolism of the unconscious to Christianity as well as to other religions. Not only do I leave the door open for the Christian message, but I consider it of central importance for Western man. It needs, however, to be seen in a new light, in accordance with the changes wrought by the contemporary spirit. [Carl Jung](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung.md) · [Memories, Dreams, Reflections](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections.md) · p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections/it-is-only.md) Topics: [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md), [symbols](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/symbols.md) > All revolutions are doctrinal — such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [The Napoleon of Notting Hill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-napoleon-of-notting-hill.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-napoleon-of-notting-hill/all-revolutions-are.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md)