Top 1200 Christian Teaching Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.

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.

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

While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

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

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

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

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

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 time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.

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

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.

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world.

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

. . . 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.

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

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.

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

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.

The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.

If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.

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.'

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.

A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

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

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

It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

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

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

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