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| Adam hade en stor fördel. När han sade någonting bra visste han att ingen hade sagt det före honom. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Adam åt äpplet, och vi har fortfarande tandvärk. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| Att gå till kyrkan gör dig lika lite kristen som att gå till garaget gör dig till en bil. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| De senaste rönen säger att Jesus föddes år 7 f.Kr. Tala om att vara före sin tid. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Den siste Kristne dog på korset. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Det är något grundläggande fel med den som inte vill bryta mot något av de tio budorden. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Det är tur att inte kyrkorna lyder under postverket, för då hade de ju inte haft öppet på söndagarna. | Michael Taylor |
| Elektriciteten kan inte komma in, där den inte kan gå igenom. Så kräver det kristna evangeliet ett utlopp, om det ska få verklig ingång. | Michael Taylor |
| En bra predikan ska vara som en kjol; tillräckligt kort för att väcka intresset, men ändå tillräckligt lång för att täcka det väsentligaste. | Michael Taylor |
| En del saker måste man se för att tro på. | Michael Taylor |
| En del saker måste man tro på för att få se. | Michael Taylor |
| För mig handlar Kristendomen om kungariket, inte om kyrkan: det handlar om hur människan växer och utvecklas och inte om hur kyrkan växer och utvecklas. | Michael Taylor |
| Jag tror på kristendomen så som jag tror på att solen går upp: Inte bara för att jag ser den, utan för att jag ser allting annat. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Jag var hungrig och du gav mig mat. Jag var törstig och du släckte min törst. Jag var en främling och du bjöd in mig. Jag var naken och du gav mig kläder. Jag var sjuk och du besökte mig. Jag var i fängelse och du kom till mig. | Bible |
| Jesus räddar... men Gretzky tar returen! Han skjuter! Han gör MÅÅÅL! | Mark Potter (1937-) |
| Jesus suckar: "Jag tackar Gud att det var för 1900 år sedan och inte nu som jag sändes till jorden att förbättra människorna." | Mark Potter (1937-) |
| Jesus, precis som alla bra fiskare, fångar fisken först; sedan rengör han den. | Mark Potter (1937-) |
| Kristendomen har haft för många advokater och för få vittnen. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Kristendomen kommer säkerligen att överleva på jorden i tusen år till- uppstoppad och på museum. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Kristendomen är den mest löjliga, absurda och blodiga religion som någonsin infekterat världen. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Kristendomen är frihetens och civilisationens fiende. | August Bebel |
| Maria: "Alla krubbor äro upptagna. Tror du att vi kan få tak över huvudet därinne?". Josef: "Omöjligt, det är ju en kyrka." | Drottning Kristina (1626-1689) |
| Människorna skulle vara förlorade om deras böner alltid blev hörda. | Drottning Kristina (1626-1689) |
| Om en männsika inte kan vara kristen där han är, så kan han inte vara kristen någonstans. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Om Kristus fanns på jorden nu, så är det en sak han inte skulle vara: kristen. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Präst vägrade viga akrobater. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Präst: en man som åtar sig att sköta våra himmelska affärer som ett medel att förbättra sina jordiska. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| På uppståndelsens dag, när ortoceratiterna lämnar kalkstenstrapporna, kan det bli problem för dem som bor i höghus. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Säga vad man vill om de tio budorden. Det går inte att komma ifrån ett behagligt faktum: de är bara tio. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Utan Jesus Kristus tyngs människan av laster och elände; Med Jesus Kristus är människan fri från laster och elände; i Honom är all vår dygd och glädje. Utan Honom är elände, mörker, död och förtvivlan. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Visst finns det skillnad mella manliga och kvinnliga präster, men det är väl inte dem som de predikar med. | Staffan Lindén (1926-) |
| Ända sedan Eva satte igång det hela med att bjuda Adam på äpplet har kvinnans straff varit att förse mannen med mat och sedan lida för följderna när han inte tål maten. | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| Även om man predikar i kyrkorna, så klarar sig inte kyrkan utan åskledare. | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) |
| The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) |
| Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I | Alfred Kreymborg |
| Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life | Andrew Lias |
| For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most | Annie Besant (1847-1933) |
| The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified | Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) |
| I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet | Charles Bradlaugh |
| A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight | Charles Stanley |
| Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully | Charles Templeton (1915-) |
| Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread. | D. T. Niles |
| A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon | Duane Dewel |
| Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched | Francis Schaeffer |
| Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death | Friedrich Max Muller |
| The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life. | James L. Christensen |
| If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being | Jerry Falwell (1933-) |
| The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions | John Newton (1725-1807) |
| It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her | Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) |
| Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan | Marie Louise De La Ramee (1839-1908) |
| Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ | Matthew Henry |
| Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy. | Mike Ditka (1939-) |
| One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. | Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) |
| The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. | Sean Ningen |
| A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday | Thomas Russell Ybarra |
| A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. | Thomas Ybarra |
| For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says. | Wilfrid Sheed (1930-) |
| The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world. | Gene Fowler (1890-1960) |
| There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster | Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) |
| There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed | Hannah Moore |
| Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free | Patrick Buchanan (1938-) |
| Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity | Phillip Brooks |
| Christianity is the most materialistic of all religions | William Temple, Sr. |
| Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life | Andrew Lias |
| In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose...to be conformed to the likeness of his Son. (Romans 8:28-29) | Bible |
| Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future- certianly none for the Germans. Facism, if it likes, may come to terms with the Church. So shall I. Why not? That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and annihilating it in Germany. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. | Adrian Rogers |
| My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| His Christianity was muscular | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared. (Hebrews 5:7) | Bible |
| All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, | Bible |
| The borrower is servant to the lender | Bible |
| I am the resurrection, and the life | Bible |
| Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. | Bruce Barton (1886-1967) |
| An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.... I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the blind see | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| It is the half-Christian clergy of every denomination that are the main cause of the so-called failure of the church of Christ | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all infidelity that has ever been spoken | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the thape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. | Graham Greene (1904-1991) |
| Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| Love is the bond of perfection. | John Winthrop (1588-) |
| The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her | Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) |
| I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Whenever you read "therefore" in the Bible, you have to find out what it's there for. | Malcolm Smith |
| The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. | Novalis (1772-1801) |
| Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| If you can think of anything that's more important than Jesus to you, then Jesus is nothing to you. | Pastor Mark Correll |
| People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Christianity is a battle, not a dream | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Christianity is the most materialistic of all religions | William Temple, Sr. |