Top 1200 Christian Heritage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

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

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.

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

I want people to know that LeCrae the person is a Christian. Just because you put a tag on me or my music that doesn't make me or the music more or less of a Christian. I'd hope the legacy that I'd leave that people say... No, he's not a Christian because he said he was or because his stuff was labeled that. He's a Christian because he lived it! And when you know him and you know his life this is someone whose life is marked by Jesus.

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

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

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

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

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.

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.

Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

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

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.

I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.

It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.

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.

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

I'm unapologetic for the fact my Christian faith defines my decision-making process. I will bring those Christian principles and that mindset to Frankfort.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

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.

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.

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.

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

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

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

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

The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for a Christian anti-defamation league. To some degree, there is such an organization emerging on the horizon, the Catholic League... I have had it on my heart for about a decade - and have even expressed the thought - that a Christian anti-defamation league would be helpful.

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.

Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.

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.

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

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.

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

A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?

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.'

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

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

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

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.

The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.

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

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

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

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

They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.