Christianity Quotes

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence: Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity-I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough-I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose-following Christianity's first day!-Why not following its last day, instead?-Following today?-Transvaluation of all values!

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.