Christian Quotes

"For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"America should function as a Christian nation"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"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

"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

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

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

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

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"The 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"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God"

William Gurnall, Author

"The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result"

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else"

Howard Dean, Politician

"According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax"

Bob Riley, Politician

"A good lawyer is a bad Christian"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan"

Alan Moore, Writer

"St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"A 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"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"Our 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"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian"

William Gurnall, Author

"I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument"

T-Bone Burnett

"A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

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