Christian Principles Quotes

#1. The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.

Oliver North

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

George W. Bush

#3. We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

S. Truett Cathy

#4. If [Christian leaders] do not teach Christian principles to all followers of Christ, we are not equipping them with God's truth that will
overcome worldly influence.

Billy Graham

#5. That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. Men and women who live in America ... have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.

David O. McKay

#7. A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

Benjamin Hart

#8. [I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.

John McCain

#9. From Pius' perspective, capitalism, unlike socialism, can be compatible with Christian principles.

Anonymous

#10. From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

Jim DeMint

#11. Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.

Noah Webster

#12. Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.

Bill O'Reilly

#13. The whole program of unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of Christian principles: that man, in fact, did not look after his brother.

Studs Terkel

#14. As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.

William Zinsser

#15. The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

Harry S. Truman

#16. The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.

H. Wayne House

#17. The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep the government from running the Church. But it is not to keep Christian principles out of the government.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

C.S. Lewis

#19. We can't expect the nation to operate by Christian principles ... but we can expect this of the church.

Philip Yancey

#20. The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement ... We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.

Pat Robertson

#21. That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

David Barton

#22. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

John Thune

#24. In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Max Lucado

#25. Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

Peter Marshall

#26. I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge.

Zig Ziglar

#27. Impact does not obey hard work but principles.

Christian Michael

#28. Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.

Pat Robertson

#29. Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.

Christian Tissier

#30. And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Christopher Dawson

#31. Don't just practice religion, abide by the principles of Christ

Sunday Adelaja

#32. Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

Robert Jeffress

#33. Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

Pope Francis

#34. Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men has its source in God, and all that is bad has the devil as its principle and source. In the final account, all good comes from God, and all evil from the devil.

Justin Popovic

#35. This book proves that a godly attitude lies at the heart of Christian leadership. It does not borrow principles of leadership from the world and apply them to the church, but rather derives principles of leadership directly from the Scriptures.

J. Oswald Sanders

#36. The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'.

Andre Vltchek

#37. How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.

Adolf Hitler

#38. The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

William Gurnall

#39. As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.

S. Truett Cathy

#40. Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

Watchman Nee

#41. 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

#42. Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.

Charles R. Swindoll

#43. Let the children ... be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Benjamin Rush

#44. The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

Albert Einstein

#45. The blessings God gives us must in turn become blessings to others, because Christians are supposed to be channels, not reservoirs. To receive God's blessings and then selfishly keep them is to violate one of the basic principles of the Christian life.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#46. Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#47. When you study God's Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

Elizabeth George

#48. 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

#49. I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

Theodore Roosevelt

#50. To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.

Deepak Chopra

#51. Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.

Russell D. Moore

#52. Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

Nancy Pearcey

#53. With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

David Jeremiah

#54. Let us constantly bear in mind the rules and principles of Christian warfare; namely, that we conquer by yielding, we receive by giving, we overcome by being defeated, and we live by dying. There is no other way except the way of the Cross.

George Warnock

#55. No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

D. James Kennedy

#56. Our generation has become well versed in Christian terminology but is remiss in the actual practice of Christ's principles and teachings. Hence, our greatest need today is not more Christianity but more true Christians.

Billy Graham

#57. It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Noah Webster

#58. Living in God's righteousness and conducting your work according to God's golden principles will undoubtedly lead any born again Christian to incredible success

Sunday Adelaja

#59. Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Noah Webster

#60. Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

Beverly LaHaye

#61. Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#62. [T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government ... and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

Noah Webster

#63. The Christian coach keeps ethics in perspective by aligning his principles and values with his biblical worldview, endeavoring to see things from God's point of view.

Michael J. Marx

#64. We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Harry Truman

#65. I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time.

Andy Andrews

#66. It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

David Barton

#67. We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance, while encouraging the faithful to endure to the end.

Mark Skousen

#68. In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

Martin Luther

#69. Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#70. Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#71. This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.

John Eldredge

#72. I began to wonder if becoming a Christian did not work more like falling in love than agreeing with a list of true principles.

Donald Miller

#73. I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

Dee Snider