Top 1200 Christian Right Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

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 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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

There are people who are explicit and people who are implicit, right? Like I say, 'I think there is a God,' but I've seen Christian metalcore bands do altar calls at their shows and be like, 'Come get saved right now.' I think there's a subtler way, which is to say I'm being honest with my beliefs.

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

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

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

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.

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

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

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

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

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