Top 1200 Christian Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education.

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

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.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

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

I'm a good, upstanding guy with moral values and core values.

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

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

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

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

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

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.

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 strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

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

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.

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.

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

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.

Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.

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

I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.

An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.

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

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.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

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

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

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

I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

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

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.

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

India and Fiji have many shared values, and it is the responsibility of both the countries to strengthen those values.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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

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?'

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

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 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.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

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

All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.

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.

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

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.

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