Christianity Quote by Lionel Blue

The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

— Porphyry

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

— Augusto Pinochet

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of…

— Jurgen Habermas

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

— Eileen Wilks

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

— G. M. Trevelyan

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

— Herman Melville

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines…

— Shane Claiborne

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

— Prince Charles

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

— Edward Gibbon

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

— Lucretius