Christian Quotes

"What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before"

Susie Bright, Writer

"When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith"

Karl Lehmann, Clergyman

"It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion"

Noah Webster, Writer

"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird"

Stacie Orrico, Musician

"I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith"

Stacie Orrico, Musician

"I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality"

Troy Perry, Clergyman

"We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited"

Robert Rainy, Clergyman

"Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity"

Robert Rainy, Clergyman

"A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled"

Robert Rainy, Clergyman

"Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom"

Kenneth R. Miller, Scientist

"My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church"

Henry Fonda, Actor

"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest"

Iris DeMent, Musician

"And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

"First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity"

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theologian

"The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin"

Frank Harris, Author

"I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved"

Della Reese, Musician

"When I became a Christian my confidence grew"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity"

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Politician

"As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct"

Alfre Woodard, Actress

"Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older I realize that I'm walking even closer with my God"

Andy Griffith, Actor

"No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals"

Belva Lockwood, Lawyer

"My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be"

Charlie Daniels, Musician

"A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian"

Artie Lange, Actor

"It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order"

Asa Gray, Scientist

"When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue"

Johann Arndt, Theologian

"As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present"

Martin Chemnitz, Theologian

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