Christian Quotes

"I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"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

"In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"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

"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve"

Hector Hugh Munro, 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

"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

"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 mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"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

"A good lawyer is a bad Christian"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"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

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