Top 100 Be A Christian Quotes
#1. To me, I think it's this thing of everyone wanting to make Jesus the Son of God and Jesus the only way to God that is the thing that no longer makes me want to be a Christian.
Woody Harrelson
#2. One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
R.C. Sproul
#3. If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
Billy Graham
#4. I told her how frustrating it is to be a Christian in America, and how frustrated I am with not only the church's failures concerning human rights, but also my personal failure to contribute to the solution.
Donald Miller
#5. Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.
Kevin Sessums
#6. I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.
Stanley Hauerwas
#7. To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.
John Piper
#9. You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
Donald Miller
#10. Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
Brian D. McLaren
#11. Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.
John Piper
#12. A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
Mark Twain
#13. Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.
Stanley Hauerwas
#14. I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.
Erwin McManus
#15. The biblical math could not be simpler; if a person who professes to be a Christian lives like the devil, he is of the devil.
Todd Friel
#16. We all distrust people we don't know; it's instinctive. This is why to be a Christian demands that we stretch well beyond what is natural, beyond what is instinctive.
Sandhya Rani Jha
#17. To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
Karl Barth
#18. If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
Bruce Cockburn
#20. Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.
Denzel Washington
#21. If there were no hereafter, I would still prefer to be a Christian, and the humblest Christian minister, to being a king or an emperor, for I am persuaded there are more delights in Christ, yea, more joy in one glimpse of His face than is to be found in all the praises of this harlot- world,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
Timothy Keller
#23. There is not one verse of Scripture that indicates you can be a Christian and live any kind of a life you want to. When Christ enters into the human heart, He expects to be Lord and Master. He commands complete surrender.
Billy Graham
#24. He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.
Herrick Johnson
#25. I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.
Josh Turner
#26. But it isn't a choice, because Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life." If you come across truth in any form, it isn't outside your faith as a Christian. Your faith just got bigger. To be a Christian is to claim truth wherever you find it.
Rob Bell
#27. To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.
Stanley Hauerwas
#28. 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.
C.S. Lewis
#29. I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#30. If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.
Mark Twain
#31. And despite what the loudmouth liberal lunatics squawk, our Founding Fathers fully intended for the United States of America to be a Christian nation. Always has been, still is, forever should be.
Captain Chris
#32. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C.S. Lewis
#33. I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
Pat Robertson
#34. He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).
Richard Baxter
#35. To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.
Oswald J. Smith
#36. Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
C.S. Lewis
#37. To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.
Cornel West
#38. Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
Aaron Rodgers
#39. I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.
Shane Claiborne
#40. I'm too big of a fan of sin and debauchery to be a Christian.
J.C. Wickhart
#41. Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it.
Horace Bushnell
#42. You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
Ambrose Bierce
#43. If you want to be saved and be a Christian, then stay open to correction. Preachers have to rebuke, or they should leave their position. The Christian who won't accept correction is only pretending to be a Christian.
Martin Luther
#44. I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.
Guglielmo Marconi
#45. You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.
Nancy Pearcey
#46. Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.
Billy Graham
#47. To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.
Henri Nouwen
#48. The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
Soren Kierkegaard
#49. Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a Christian club.
Walter Kasper
#50. Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.
Monica Johnson
#51. She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.
Kellyn Roth
#52. What happened once I started distributing communion was the truly disturbing, dreadful realization about Christianity: You can't be a Christian by yourself.
Sara Miles
#53. There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
John Piper
#54. I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.
Wayne Dyer
#55. Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
Martin Luther
#56. It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.
Gordon Fee
#57. Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.
Mel White
#58. There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
Eugene H. Peterson
#59. To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.
David Lloyd-Jones
#60. To be a Christian, you can't go with the flow. You have to go by the Word of God.
Jim Cymbala
#61. I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
Blaise Pascal
#62. To be a Christian is not a pious pose. It is not a long list of restrictions. Christianity flings open the windows to the real joy of living. Those who have been truly converted to Jesus Christ know the meaning of abundant living.
Billy Graham
#63. But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
Yann Martel
#64. I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.
Anne Lamott
#66. If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther
#68. If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
Johnny Cash
#69. This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation," [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.
Mark Sundeen
#70. No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man
enough to fulfill them except that he be a Christian-that is,one who,
like Christ, cares first for the will of the Father.
George MacDonald
#71. I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.
Philip Yancey
#72. We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved.
Ken Ham
#73. It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.
Hill Harper
#74. I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.
Ryan Hall
#75. For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
R.C. Sproul
#76. If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
John Locke
#77. If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.
Stephen Colbert
#78. 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.
Raimon Panikkar
#79. this: I lost Jesus in there. It seemed one could be a Christian without being a disciple of Jesus.
Sarah Bessey
#80. If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today ... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone ... we must be compassionate!
Josephine Bakhita
#81. To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
Rowan Williams
#82. Our age knows better ... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent - it is indecent to be a Christian today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#83. Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian
to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#84. There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
Paul Tournier
#85. To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.
Martin Luther
#86. You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
S. Truett Cathy
#87. It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.
Martin Luther
#88. It's easy to be a Christian when you're living the perfect life. It's easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.
Tessa Emily Hall
#89. One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
C.S. Lewis
#90. He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.
John Locke
#91. In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.
Johann Baptist Metz
#92. No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#93. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#94. J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
Roger Fry
#95. I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
Jimmy Carter
#96. On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.
R. Kent Hughes
#97. It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
Victoria Jackson
#99. I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do.
Stanley Hauerwas
#100. I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.
Maya Angelou
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