Top 1200 Christian Philosophy 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.

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

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

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.

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 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.

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

Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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.