Century Quote by Milton R. Hunter

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians…

— Neil MacGregor

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

— Mark Twain

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.

— Graham Stanton

Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of…

— Ben F. Meyer

But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present…

— Leo Tolstoy

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

— James B. Donovan

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.

— Alfred Loisy

That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot…

— James Anthony Froude

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted…

— John Stuart Mill

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

— Vance Havner