Christian Quotes

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

How does the phrase radical Islamic terrorism link all the believers of a faith to terrorism? If I said radical Christian terrorism, does that mean I as a Catholic are a terrorist?

All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.

I don't think anything predated Christians.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

There are some people who don't believe in entertainment if you're a Christian artist. But I think it's a good thing for it to be entertainment at the same time.

We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.

Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

We're just helping out the Christians by bringing about the apocalypse. They can all go to heaven

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.

I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

I do believe that Christians - I don't identify as a Christian. I believe in God.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest

Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.