Christianity Quotes

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

As to Jesus of Nazareth… I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to […]

The correct response to modernity is not to place God beyond the limits of reason, or drag him into history from the outside, or domesticate him in “religious sentiment,” or bottle him up in bourgeois mentality by making belief in him a human excellence. Nor is it the answer to assert that to move away […]

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: – One who wished to preserve Judaism – one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works… I mean real good works… not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing… or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

The Christians of the early centuries were generally pure Communists, sometimes “Social Democrats,” who according to the prevailing theory in Germany today, ought to have been exterminated with fire and sword.