Christian Quotes

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

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

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.

The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'

Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.

Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?

The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.

Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

One person can bring favor to many during the storm.

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

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

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!