65 Metaphors for christianity

" "But" we reply, "You are totally mistaken: Christianity is the most perfect and lovely of moral systems.

His Christianity is the simple, loving, practical kind that fairly shines from his presence and attracts people to him immediately.

The third fact in our human situation is that Christianity is the interpretation of religion.

In the anguish of his soul Job cried, "I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou Preserver of men?" Christianity is God's full and final answer to that appeal.

"Is our Christianity, as the Chinese get it, any advance on their own religion?

Christianity became the law of the land, and entered largely into all the Saxon codes.

For if liberty is only an adventitious right; if men are by no means superiour to brutes; if every social duty is a curse; if cruelty is highly to be esteemed; if murder is strictly honourable, and Christianity is a lye; then it is evident, that the African slavery may be pursued, without either the remorse of conscience, or the imputation of a crime.

It is no wonder Louis thinks Christianity is a humbug, though he must confess there is something in it when he looks at you.

If ever anti-Christianity had a chance to show its beauty, it was when it was at its supreme strength, and when Christianity was a babe in the manger; and these are only suggestions of the hell it dug for man at Rome.

We are told that the enlightened should be "liberal and tolerant towards traditional opinions and traditional practices, and trust with cheerful faith to evolution to bring about gradually changes of form," &c.; that the influence of the clergy is "on the whole exerted for good," and it is frankly acknowledged that Christianity has been a potent factor in the evolution of modern civilization.

At this time Christianity became the formal religion of many who were still heathen in character and thought, and cared little about the expression of a faith which they had adopted more from the influence of external motives than from principle or conviction.

Christianity is not an independent form of faith.

Christianity may well have been the teaching influence in this department of life as in others.

Ask Peter or James or John or Paul, ask any believing Jew and he will tell you that Christianity is simply the consummation of his faith as a Jew.

Christianity has been with us many hundreds of years.

So far however as the Christian creed exceeds man's natural exigencies and aspirations, it plainly cannot be subjected to this criterion; and so far as it includes (while it transcends) the highest form of "natural religion," the argument from adaptability holds of it only if we suppose Christianity to be a natural product of the human mind, thus destroying its claim to be from without and from above.

Christianity is a genuine historic evolution.

Christianity is the ministration of the spirit.

Christianity and philosophy, theism and pantheism, dualism and immanence, are irreconcilable opposites.

It is true that it embraces within its scheme the great truths of Christianity upon the subject of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body; but this was to be presumed, because Freemasonry is truth, and Christianity is truth, and all truth must be identical.

It is altogether too rashly assumed by people whose sentimentality outruns their knowledge that Christianity is essentially an attempt to carry out the personal teachings of Christ.

His Christianity as Old as the Creation is the doomsday book of deism.

Look here: if Christianity be the outcome of human aspiration, the natural growth of the human soil, is it not strange it should be such an utter failure as it seems to you?

It has thrown its observations, just as poetry and art have thrown their observations, into symbolic forms, of which Christianity is incomparably the most important.

Christianity was the last great religious synthesis.

65 Metaphors for  christianity