Christian Quotes

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents"

George Orwell, Author

"To be like Christ is to be a Christian"

William Penn, Leader

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

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"The Christian market has less competition and lower standards"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion"

Samuel Butler, Poet

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

Samuel Butler, Poet

"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

"People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Lovie Smith and I are not only the first two African-Americans but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord's way and we're more proud of that"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head"

Ken Kesey, Author

"The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?"

Ken Kesey, Author

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one"

David Hume, Philosopher

"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian"

David Hume, Philosopher

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

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith"

Mark Hatfield, Politician

"The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people"

Mark Hatfield, Politician

"I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion"

Mary Astell, Writer

"I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"One 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"

Barack Obama, President

"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead"

Barack Obama, President

"I'm a Christian by choice"

Barack Obama, President

"Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

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

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

"If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

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