Christian Quotes

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?

Europe cannot survive another world war.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.

life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.