Christian Quotes

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.

Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.

The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.

I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.

... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.

There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary greatly.

What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

Our goal, as Christians, is to dominate society

After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody to practice it.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.

The goal of the Christian is to grow up into Christ.

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

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.

Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chaos action.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

I'm sure that Plotinus wasn't that impressed by the Christians.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the traditional tool for religious socialization?

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.