Top 1200 Great Christian Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge of the universe. All human belief systems are inherently flawed. If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic. Also, there's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their interest in science. Anti-science is a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

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

There is clothing that is improper for a Christian woman.

There is a decided bias against things Christian.

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell"

This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

When I die I just want to be remembered as a Christian.

…for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I've had some of my best matches with Christian.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church, others are disciples of the minister, and a third sort are disciples of their own thoughts; he is the wise man who sits at Jesus' feet and learns of Him, with the resolve to follow His teaching and imitate His example. He who tries to learn of Jesus Himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own lips, binding himself to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught and to do whatsoever He hath commanded-he I say, is the stable Christian.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

I love Christian Louboutin, but I can't walk in them yet.

The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an Almighty and if you choose not to. 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. Prayer and religion sustain me. I receive calmness in the storms of the presidency. I love the fact that people pray for me and my family all around the country. Somebody asked me one time, how do you know? I said I just feel it.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am.

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

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

No Christian needs to feel lonely or useless.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

America should function as a Christian nation.