It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. – Hu Shih
I can’t help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country. – Helen Mirren
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. – Hu Shih
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. – Henry Ward Beecher
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. – Hector Hugh Munro
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. – Gary North
The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto. – Howard Jacobson
I’ll tell you that when an innocent person is killed, we never go about asking or inquiring whether they were Jewish or Christian or Muslim. That’s not our way or creed. – Hassan Rouhani
One of my favourite exhibitions is called ‘Do It,’ which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago. – Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I think it’s very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation. – John Polkinghorne
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct. – Jack Kingston
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the ‘Batman’ films, and that shows you that superhero movies don’t just have to be about men in tights. – James McAvoy
A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him. – Jakob Bohme
I’m not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn’t have occurred to me. – Jane Fonda
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! – John Wesley
It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German – one of us – has been made Pope. – Horst Koehler
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ. – John D. Rockefeller
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness. – John Quincy Adams
Christian Grey – he isn’t a real person. He’s a superhero. A myth. He’s like Bigfoot! He’s unbelievable. He’s unattainable. There’s no actor in the world who could live up to that. – Jamie Dornan
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. – John Shelby Spong
When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just a social club on Sundays where people would meet up with their mates. – James Corden
Well, I’m still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I’m trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano. – Isabelle Fuhrman
