Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

[Greek: Chôris to t' eipein polla kai ta kairia]—Volubility of speech and pertinency are sometimes very different things. Sophocles.

Christen haben keine Nachbarn—Christians 50 have no neighbours. Ger. Pr.

Christianity has not yet penetrated into the whole heart of Jesus. Amiel.

Christianity appeals to the noblest feelings of the human heart, and these are emotion and imagination. Shorthouse.

Christianity has a might of its own; it is raised above all philosophy, and needs no support therefrom. Goethe.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime and sorrow triumphant. Chopin.

Christianity is a religion that can make men 55 good, only if they are good already. Hegel.

Christianity is salvation by the conversion of the will; humanism by the enlightenment of the mind. Amiel.

Christianity is the apotheosis of grief, the marvellous transmutation of suffering into triumph, the death of death and the defeat of sin. Amiel.

Christianity is the practical demonstration that holiness and pity, justice and mercy, may meet together and become one in man and in God. Amiel.