Top 1200 Great Christian Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm still very much a Christian and have a great relationship with God. I love Him, but one of my flaws is that I cuss.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The Christian who keeps his heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.

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.'

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

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

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

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

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

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

What makes America great is that we were founded on a Judeo-Christian nation. That's very important for us to understand.

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.

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

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.

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

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

Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.

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

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

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol of the victory of death over life. By the Resurrection it was that the Crucified One was "declared to be the Son of God with power," the great truth on which the Christian's faith is founded, and to which his hope is anchored. That Christ died for our sins is the Gospel of the Christian religion regarded as a human cult. The Gospel of Christianity goes on to declare "That He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures"

Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

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

Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

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.

The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.

It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

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.

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

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

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.

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

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?

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

I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example.

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

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

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

The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.

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

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

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.

In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.

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.