Abnegation Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

— William Hazlitt

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the…

— David Bentley Hart

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

— David Platt

It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

— William Wilberforce

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

— David R. Mains

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls...

— Mitt Romney

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity…

— Thomas Jefferson

“And an old priest said, Speak to us of Religion. And he said: Have I spoken this day of aught else? Is not religion…

— Khalil Gibran

“The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow.…

— C.S. Lewis

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as…

— Rick Warren