George Carlin Quotes

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

I am one of the crucified dead.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

The cross alone is our theology.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.