Christian Quotes
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.
Tags: Community, Father ✍ Author: Aravind AdigaThe love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Tags: God, Love ✍ Author: Mortimer AdlerOne of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
Tags: Faith, Problems ✍ Author: Mortimer AdlerThe Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Tags: Changes, Medical ✍ Author: Mark TwainYou don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
✍ Author: Tammy Faye BakkerI believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
Tags: Chance, Once ✍ Author: Daniel BaldwinI regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
Tags: Freedom, Life ✍ Author: Roger Nash BaldwinIf a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Tags: Cannot, Place ✍ Author: Henry Ward BeecherA Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Tags: Put, School ✍ Author: Henry Ward BeecherPeople in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Tags: General, Religion ✍ Author: Samuel ButlerI don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.
Tags: Faith, Path ✍ Author: Dean CainThere are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.
Tags: Religious, Why ✍ Author: Thomas CampionWhen you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
Tags: Country, Listen ✍ Author: Thomas CampionI'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
Tags: Major, Understood ✍ Author: George CareyThe Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Tags: Difficult, Found ✍ Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonWe also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things.
Tags: Job, Keep ✍ Author: Richard M. DaleyMy next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
Tags: Another, Old ✍ Author: Charlie DanielsEvery Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
Tags: Duty, Evil ✍ Author: John Nelson DarbyI'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.
Tags: Friends, Themselves ✍ Author: Richard DawkinsI'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
Tags: History, Society ✍ Author: Richard DawkinsIt amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
Tags: Anywhere, Passage ✍ Author: Steve EarleVisit partners pages
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
Tags: Far, History ✍ Author: Michael EastI'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
Tags: Keep, Religion ✍ Author: Jane ElliotCompletely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Tags: Great, Joke ✍ Author: Bret Easton EllisHope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
Tags: Dream, Hope ✍ Author: Bret Easton EllisIt is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Tags: Cannot, Heart ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
Tags: Failure, Human ✍ Author: Jerry FalwellI am a Christian.
✍ Author: Jerry FalwellChrist does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
Tags: Faith, Love ✍ Author: Peter FarrellyIf you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn't do that?
Tags: Jesus, Knowledge ✍ Author: Lupe FiascoWhatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
Tags: America, Whatever ✍ Author: Liam GallagherThe highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Tags: Greatest, Lost ✍ Author: Billy GrahamBeing a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Tags: Daily, Process ✍ Author: Billy GrahamI'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.
Tags: Religion ✍ Author: Vanilla IceNo Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
Tags: Optimism, System ✍ Author: William Ralph IngeThe Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
Tags: Time, Women ✍ Author: Patricia IrelandI come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Tags: Faith, Give ✍ Author: Patricia IrelandI was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
Tags: Cool, Others ✍ Author: Victoria JacksonIt doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
Tags: Fun, Life ✍ Author: Victoria JacksonI've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
Tags: Struggles, Trouble ✍ Author: Victoria JacksonAs a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
Tags: Him, Life ✍ Author: T. D. JakesPeople have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced.
Tags: Crazy, Impression ✍ Author: Cheryl JamesI was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
Tags: God, Yourself ✍ Author: Jerry B. JenkinsI was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
Tags: Home, Mother ✍ Author: Jerry B. JenkinsThe Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
Tags: Less, Market ✍ Author: Jerry B. JenkinsThe Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Tags: May, Spiritual ✍ Author: Carl JungI was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
Tags: Forward, Thinking ✍ Author: Immanuel KantI try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
Tags: Heart, Love ✍ Author: Bela KarolyiRedemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the Christian tradition but not often preached - is that you can't enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.
Tags: Health, Often ✍ Author: Thomas KeatingUniversalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
Tags: Ideal, Old ✍ Author: Arthur KeithThere's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
Tags: Become, Necessary ✍ Author: Shia LaBeoufA national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
Tags: Evil, Good ✍ Author: Joseph LancasterI think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.
Tags: Blessed, War ✍ Author: Jonny LangA weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Tags: Drinking, Weekend ✍ Author: Artie LangeWe have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Tags: Accept, Fight ✍ Author: Robert E. LeeMy chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
Tags: Humble, Try ✍ Author: Robert E. LeeTo be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Tags: Alive, Prayer ✍ Author: Martin LutherPrayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Tags: Prayer, Strong ✍ Author: Martin LutherThe fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
Tags: Islam, Mother ✍ Author: Amin MaaloufNo egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
Tags: Egoism, Soul ✍ Author: W. Somerset MaughamArchbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Tags: Christ, Superior ✍ Author: H. L. MenckenA man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
Tags: Everybody, Family ✍ Author: Dwight L. MoodyThe word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Tags: Reality, Word ✍ Author: Friedrich NietzscheThe Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Tags: Bad, Ugly ✍ Author: Friedrich NietzscheNothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
Tags: Talk, Unity ✍ Author: Conor Cruise O\'BrienPerhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.
Tags: God, Religion ✍ Author: Keith O\'BrienOne of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Tags: Great, Nation ✍ Author: Barack ObamaPassover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
Tags: Winter ✍ Author: Marvin OlaskyI grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
Tags: Age, Atheist ✍ Author: Marvin OlaskyAs with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Tags: Religion, Socialism ✍ Author: George OrwellThe Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
Tags: Computer, Redemption ✍ Author: Vance PackardBeing a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
Tags: God, Why ✍ Author: Manny PacquiaoAll national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Tags: Human, Power ✍ Author: Thomas PaineEven if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.
Tags: Culture, Jesus ✍ Author: Trey ParkerGoing to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Tags: Car, Makes ✍ Author: Laurence J. PeterI pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Tags: Liberty, Life ✍ Author: Dan QuayleI believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.
Tags: Faith, Universal ✍ Author: Paula RadcliffeThe Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Tags: Exist, Future ✍ Author: Karl RahnerFor the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Tags: Great, Life ✍ Author: Robert RainyA tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
Tags: Good, Life ✍ Author: Robert RainyOf course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
Tags: Church, Religious ✍ Author: Robert RainyAs a Christian, I think it's really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.
Tags: God, Trust ✍ Author: Leven RambinOur Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
Tags: God, Place ✍ Author: Joseph RatzingerThe real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
Tags: God, Real ✍ Author: Joseph RatzingerI as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
Tags: Friends, Perfect ✍ Author: Melissa RauchIt looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
Tags: Banner, Pagan ✍ Author: Donna ReedThere is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
Tags: Christ, Compare ✍ Author: John D. RockefellerIf ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
Tags: Angry, Face ✍ Author: J. K. RowlingI say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Tags: Enemy, Religion ✍ Author: Bertrand RussellI'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.
Tags: Human, Woman ✍ Author: Portia Simpson-MillerMy mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
Tags: Happy, Mother ✍ Author: Barry SandersIf any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Tags: Enough, Religion ✍ Author: Charles SpurgeonIntegrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
Tags: Moderate, Society ✍ Author: Pope Theodoros II