Christian Quotes: Inspiration and Faith in Words

"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Politics are not the task of a Christian"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily"

Gary North, Writer

"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way"

Dean Stanley

"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God"

Adam Smith, Economist

"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God"

William Gurnall, Author

"The 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"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake"

Basil C. Hume

"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die"

Anne Boleyn, Royalty

"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men"

Voltaire, Writer

"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon"

Martin Luther, Professor

"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"All 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"

Thomas Paine, Writer