Christian World Quotes

#1. I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.

Richard Dawkins

#2. I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. In the Christian world ... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#4. My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

Mallory Ortberg

#5. The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Joseph Butler

#6. By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.

Thomas Traherne

#7. All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

F. Sionil Jose

#8. The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness

Brigham Young

#9. In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Karl Rahner

#10. There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Laurence Sterne

#11. Give other Christians permission to be different from you. You're not the only Christ-follower in the world, and neither are you the most committed. Your way of loving Jesus is neither the only way for the best. If you don't know that, your Christian world is way too small.

Will Davis Jr.

#12. I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

#13. If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Arundhati Roy

#15. The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

George Whitefield

#16. It is obvious that the prevalent Christian world-view is not a Kingdom world-view.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. The consciousness of man is fixed on the Christ Who died, not the Christ Who LIVES. They are looking back to the Redeemer Who was, not the redeemer who IS.

John G. Lake

#18. It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness.

Brad Stine

#19. I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.

Henri Nouwen

#20. WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Alan Hirsch

#22. What I am is very much a function of what I am not. If the "other" is the Muslim world, then I am the Judeo-Christian world. IF the other is from thousands of light-years away, I am simply human. Redefine alterity and you can erase boundaries.

Sylvain Neuvel

#23. The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.

Henning Mankell

#24. It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

Philip Schaff

#25. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.

Don DeLillo

#26. If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.

Gerald Stern

#27. Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Francis Schaeffer

#28. I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

Friedrich Schiller

#29. The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!

E. Stanley Jones

#30. A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever.

Albert Mohler

#31. We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.

Hudson Taylor

#32. Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

Herman Melville

#33. We shall understand why a Christian observes laws: For the peace of the world, out of gratitude to God, and for a good example that others may be attracted to the Gospel.

Martin Luther

#34. I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

Barack Obama

#35. The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

Sheila Walsh

#36. 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

#37. Love has a heavy load of possibilities. You can't have it without some measure of pain. They go together with an inseparable bond in this world. But it's worth it. I promise you, the treasure is worth the pain.

Miranda Shisler

#38. Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

David Platt

#39. Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.

Gloria Gaynor

#40. But we were girls once, which is to say, we have all loved an ain't-shit man. No Christian way of putting it. There are two types of men in the world: men who are and men who ain't about shit.

Brit Bennett

#41. The path of the Christian life often leads in the opposite direction of the world around us.

Anonymous

#42. The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

C.S. Lewis

#43. Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

Oswald Chambers

#44. And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

Nate Saint

#45. The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.

Jim George

#46. At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

Andy Stanley

#47. Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.

Billy Graham

#48. We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#49. I'm a Christian. And until the day when the world automatically understands that to mean that I believe in the full humanity and personhood of both men and women, you can also call me a feminist.

Sarah Bessey

#50. For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives.

Brennan Manning

#51. Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

Martin Luther

#52. Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

Elisabeth Elliot

#53. It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

Billy Graham

#54. The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#55. He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.

Francis Scott Key

#56. Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable?

Paul David Washer

#57. Your world won't fall apart when Jesus is the One holding it together.

Mandy Fender

#58. 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

#59. As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.

Pat Buchanan

#60. The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.

John Piper

#61. Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

William Blake

#62. Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

Henri Nouwen

#63. Christians are to be "the light of the world" [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.

Billy Graham

#64. I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

William A. Dembski

#65. It's tough to be a Christian in our world. We need to be willing to take on Jesus' unpopularity and the scorn that is often heaped on Him.

Billy Graham

#66. Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.

William Gurnall

#67. The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

Adrian Rogers

#68. Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

Richard Rohr

#69. World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

David Bryant

#70. Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world ...

Barney Kessel

#71. In this world, the most wonderful place to be, is in the guiding care of our loving Heavenly Father.

Karen Gibbs

#72. The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he IS a fallen man in a fallen world.

C.S. Lewis

#73. The Christian cannot be indifferent to this world which God made and loves. Yet how can he be other than against it in its evil and sin and hopelessness? Both positions are necessary, and both at the same time, and without reserve.

Ronald Gregor Smith

#74. The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others.

Shawn M Mcnamara

#75. If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

Susan May Warren

#76. In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.

Elliott Colla

#77. The world's sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.

Billy Graham

#78. We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Billy Graham

#79. If this cursed and fallen world
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me.

Joyce Rachelle

#80. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

G.K. Chesterton

#81. I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don't think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.

Rick Warren

#82. Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.

Mark Driscoll

#83. The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

J. Oswald Sanders

#84. The Bible teaches that you have three enemies ... the devil ... the world ... the flesh.

Billy Graham

#85. I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

James Sharp

#86. The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

Philip Yancey

#87. The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

Francis Schaeffer

#88. The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#89. Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Stanley Hauerwas

#90. Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

Pope Francis

#91. God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world ... Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#92. Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.

Norman Geisler

#93. A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.

Pope Francis

#94. The power of genuine Christian love will Transform the world.

Tedd Galloway

#95. There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#96. We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

Scot McKnight

#97. For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.

Katharine Hayhoe

#98. Beware of worldliness - it can turn your heart away from God.

Jim George

#99. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout "Well done" to the Christian man.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#100. For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

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