Top 100 Christian Belief Quotes
#1. 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
#2. In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#3. The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
C.S. Lewis
#4. According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.
John Gresham Machen
#5. Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.
N. T. Wright
#6. I was brought up in the presence of the Bible, and I remember with affection what it was like to hold a dogmatic position on the statements of Christian belief. I would now describe myself as a candid friend of Christianity
Diarmaid MacCulloch
#7. The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.
Michael Parenti
#8. Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
Dan Brown
#9. Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.
Stanley J. Grenz
#10. To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
William Mountford
#11. When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".
Peter Leithart
#13. To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
Hilda Phoebe Hudson
#14. The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Mortimer Adler
#15. For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.
Francis Collins
#21. Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
Flannery O'Connor
#23. We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
T. S. Eliot
#25. Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.
Barack Obama
#29. The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
John Gresham Machen
#34. Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism.
Reza Aslan
#35. In the spiritual realms, we can only see the things of the spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'
Ramsay MacMullen
#39. God wants us to believe in something bigger and better than ourselves.
Jessica Lowery
#44. The choice to believe is yours. It's the only thing that truly is.
J.S.B. Morse
#46. I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.
Jim George
#53. The problem Christians have isn't our belief in what God could do, but on what God should do.
Todd Stocker
#54. We are called to service in the kingdom of God. The Christian life is not about what you claim. It is about what you believe. True belief cannot be separated from what we do.
Tyler Edwards
#56. I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.
Marcellin Berthelot
#58. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume
#61. Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
Bono
#63. And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you're just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you'll go to the very best school you can get into and earn the best grades you can.
Zack Love
#64. Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
Joel Osteen
#70. harmonialism" - a belief that spiritual, physical, and even economic well-being flow from a person's connection with metaphysical forces of the cosmos - manifested itself in such new forms of thought as Spiritualism, Christian Science, New Thought, and Theosophy.
George Pendle
#72. The world judges the Christian by his life, not by his belief.
Billy Graham
#76. We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#88. The Christian mystic therefore is one for whom God and Christ are not merely objects of belief, but living facts experimentally known first hand; and mysticism for him becomes, in so far as he responds to its demands, a life based on this conscious communion with God
Carl McColman
#89. The greatest place you can be is in a person's thoughts and prayers.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. Christian religion defines morality by a belief system based on a master-slave relationship, and rooted in resentment of the raw beauty and power of the life force.
John Lamb Lash
#91. If I must know something in order to believe in it, what I am able to believe in will be severely limited. If I choose to believe in something in order to know it, then what I believe in can be boundless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#92. In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a "call" is the man who devotes all his time to what is called "the ministry," whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.
Charles Spurgeon
#97. You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living up to them. Similarly, not all liberals are living up to the tenets of liberalism.
Ann Coulter
#98. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
Oswald Chambers
#99. I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.
William A. Dembski
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