Christian religion Quote by Philip Pullman Download Open image ““The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.”” — Philip Pullman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian religion Religion
“It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.” — William Temple Copy Share Image
“Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Be not Christians by halves, but go through with it; the thorough Christian is the true Christian.” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.” — Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Christianity isn’t worth a snap of your finger if it doesn’t straighten out your character. I have got tired of all mere gush and… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it still follow the Christian ideal.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“don’t make the mistake of skipping the Old Testament. It’s the core of all religion, I” — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Too much church and too less Jesus is dangerous, it can transform you into a religious person.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
“For he also researched the history of Christianity and felt it was based on many earlier fraudulent mistakes made by those bent on perverting… — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
“I used to be a Christian, but I decided to follow the teachings of Jesus instead.” — Joni Rodgers Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is not set… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“The Christian religion alone has been able to cure these twin vices, not by using one to expel the other according to worldly wisdom,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image