CHRISTIANITY (specifically)

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"And yet what are all bugle calls compared to the one the archangel will blow some day: 'Awake, you who sleep, the Lord is coming!" ~Soren Kierkegaard

"Christianity can only be communicated by witnesses, i.e. by those who existentially express what is said, m
ake it real in their lives." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"Off with all this world history and reasons and proofs of the truth of Christianity: there's just one proof--that of faith." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"They have made Christianity into too much of a consolation and forgotten that it is a demand." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"What the Jews and many later have demanded of Christ, that he prove his divinity, is an absurdity. For if he really were God's son the proof would be ludicrous, just as ludicrous as a person wanting to prove his own existence, since in Christ's case existence and divinity are the same--and if he were a deceiver, he must surely have entered well enough into the part to realize that the moment he tried to prove his divinity he would be refuting himself." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"'In Jesus Christ there is more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.'" ~John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a car." ~Laurence J. Peter

"Christianity does not unite people--no, it separates them--in order to unite every single one with God. And when a person is able to belong to God, he has died away from what unites people." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"Being a Christian in Christendom in plain conformity is as impossible as doing gymnastics in a straitjacket." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"In yet a little while
  I shall have won;
  Then the whole fight
  Will at once be done.
  Then I may rest
  In bowers of roses
  And unceasingly, unceasingly
  Speak with my Jesus." ~H. A. Brorson