Top 1200 Good Christian Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

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.

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

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

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

My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.

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

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.'

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

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

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?

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

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

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

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

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.

From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business.

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.

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

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

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

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

Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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