#christianity

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#every #every man #free #giving #good

For what was your gesture? An act of pure love for Jesus particularly. It was an act so completely focused upon the Christ that not a dram of worldly benefit was gained thereby. Nothing could justify the spillage of some three hundred days' wages, except love alone. [...] The disciples, in fact, were offended by an act that produced nothing, accomplished nothing, fed no poor, served no need. They reproached you as a wastrel. They were offended by the absurd, an act devoted absolutely to love, to love alone. But Jesus called it 'beautiful. ↗

— Walter Wangerin Jr.

#the-passion #beauty

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#christianity #coexistence #eurasia #even #examples

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #european #great #narcotics #two

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ↗

— William Penn

#christianity #hardest #learn #lesson #love

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bible #christianity #death #essence #evil

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#anything #christianity #ever #far #heard

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#area #areas #christianity #especially #even

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. ↗

— Anne Rice

#angels #away #christianity #far #far away

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#certainties #christianity #had #i #i think