Top 1200 Christian Hope Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.

To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.

According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

God's people need to unashamedly and uncompromisingly stand on the Bible. We need to unashamedly proclaim a Christian worldview and the gospel, all the while giving answers for the hope we have.

To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

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

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time.

I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure.

It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!

I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us use has contributed to the crisis in Christianity in North America. Traditional Christian language is becoming less familiar to millions of people. The language is frequently misunderstood by people.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

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.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the attacks of Islam. Today every Christian has an opportunity and obligation to present the gospel effectively and in Christian love to the Muslims who have permeated our Western society. When your neighbor, your mechanic, your favorite basketball player, your employer or employee, or even your children's friends could very well be Muslims, the need for proper understanding and an effective Christian witness is abundantly clear.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

Every Christian needs to be informed, every Christian needs to register and every Christian should absolutely vote.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.