Famous quotes containing the word christians:
“We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“We are no longer Christians: we have outgrown Christianity not because we have been too remote from it but rather because we have been too closeit is precisely our more stringent and more fastidious piety that forbids us to remain Christians nowadays.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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