Christian Quotes

"I'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"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year"

Roger Moore, Actor

"I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make"

Thomas Arnold, Educator

"All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination"

Roger Sherman, Politician

"There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience"

Amy Lee, Musician

"When 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"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another"

John Clayton

"I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are"

Larry Norman, Musician

"I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday"

John Clayton

"I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system"

Tim Scott, Politician

"You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope"

Mary A. Ward

"It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order"

Mike Pence, Politician

"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No"

Amy Grant, Musician

"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"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease"

Keith Miller, Author

"I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian"

Luke Ford, Writer

"Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most"

Annie Besant, Philosopher

"We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Politics are not the task of a Christian"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

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