John Irving Quotes

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.

I believe in Jesus Christ.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened.

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.