Top 1200 Christian Atheist Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers because they put down religion so much. Now I am an atheist, but I don't like to describe myself with that term. I prefer secular humanist. But I do see first hand how beneficial religion is, for example if you are a refugee getting in a boat to take you across the Mediterranean, a belief in God is an advantage. I completely understand that comfort.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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