Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved—the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

The cross alone is our theology.

I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

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

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think his death interpreted his life in a fantastic way, because if you study that life carefully underneath an overlay of theology and mythology, you'll find that the power of that life was that he was constantly giving himself away. He was constantly calling people to be all that they could be.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.