Top 1200 Good Christian Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit we may derive therefrom. All wise men, therefore, agree that justice and profit are the two most powerful inducements to move our wills to any undertaking. Now, though men seek profit more frequently than justice, yet justice is in itself more powerful.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

I think I'm a person who is proud of my [Christian] faith and where I come from.

Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong in believing in elves even though their names aren't on the parish register," he said. "It hurts no one, yes and even does you good rather than harm; but to believe in ghosts and ghouls-that I contend is nothing but the remains of popery and hardly fit for a Christian to give even a moment's consideration." He did his utmost to persuade the women to accept his views on these matters.

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

I couldn't just be good on the mic. I needed to be good on the mic; I needed to be good in the ring; I need to be good in my presentation; my ring attire need to look good, my appearance. Everything about me needed to be the best. I couldn't be weak in any area because you're only as good as your weakest aspect.

When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.

My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.

I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus, to the Sumerians Lughal. Its not the same dude on walkabout, it's the Astrological sign of Leo. In the Christian iconography we have one of the Evangelists represented by a Lion. In the Nativity scenes we see 4 animals around the cradle of the Son/Sun king. One of these is also a Lion. Christians probably believe that there was one in the area and just happened to wander into the inn to take a peek at sleeping Jesus. Good thing it wasn't very hungry.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.

Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian.

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

Newsweek is one of the most anti-Christian magazines out there.

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making, societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will of God.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.