Top 1200 Christian Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.

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.