Christians Today Quotes

#1. To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#2. What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#3. Faith enables our spiritual sense to function. Where faith is defective, the result will be inward insensibility and numbness toward spiritual things. This is the condition of vast numbers of Christians today.

A.W. Tozer

#4. The key to our lives as Christians today is how clearly we see by faith the resurrected Christ.

Dave Hunt

#5. How is it that Christians today will pay $20 to hear the latest Christian artist in concert, but Jesus can't draw a crowd?

Jim Cymbala

#6. From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can't miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil's demons put together.

Wes Moore

#7. Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school.

Benjamin Hart

#8. One wonders why Christians today get off so easily. Is it because unchristian Americans are that much better than unchristian Romans, or is our light so dim that the tormentor can't see it? What are the things we do that are worth persecuting?

Clarence Jordan

#9. It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.

Billy Graham

#10. One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it!

Scot McKnight

#11. The problem with Christians today is that no one wants to kill them anymore.

Jamie Buckingham

#12. It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are starving. Creation is good. But the one who gave us this gorgeous token of his affection has asked us to share it with our sisters and brothers.

Ronald J. Sider

#13. Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.

Francis Chan

#14. So many Christians today see a system in which they cannot measure up and so they feel unworthy. The church seems to have failed them.

Ted Dekker

#15. The problem with most Christians today is that they would rather be on the judgment seat than on the witness stand. Anonymous

Britt Merrick

#16. Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.

David Kinnaman

#17. The greatest need in the world today is for fully committed Christians.

Billy Graham

#18. The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God

Rick Warren

#19. The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Walid Jumblatt

#20. Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!

Hank Hanegraaff

#22. A key problem for Islam today can be summarized in three simplifying sentences: Christians worship a man made divine. Jews worship a book. And Muslims worship both.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#23. There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#24. The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their mouths and walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.

Jefferson Bethke

#25. The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don't have people who are doing it.

Tyler Edwards

#26. The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Irving Kristol

#27. We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#28. And Richard Phillips writes, Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.

Tim Challies

#29. This heretical perversion of the message of Jesus that most often passes for Christianity today has been aptly termed churchianity. People go to church, profess a belief in Jesus totally devoid of a belief in his teachings, and then self-righteously proclaim themselves to be "Christians.

Robert S. McElvaine

#30. It is not their love for men, rather it is the impotence of their love that hinders Christians of today from burning us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: the manuscripts, the versions, and the writings of early Christians (Church Fathers). In

Neil R. Lightfoot

#32. Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.
False teachers use high-sounding words
that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty ... adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

Billy Graham

#33. The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

Vance Havner

#34. The biggest threat to the church today is fans who call themselves Christians but aren't actually interested in following Christ. They want to be close enough to Jesus to get all the benefits, but not so close that it requires anything from them.

Kyle Idleman

#35. Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Peter Kreeft

#36. The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

Widad Akreyi

#37. Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

David Wilkerson

#38. If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

Randall Terry

#39. Let's stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.

Widad Akreyi

#40. The solution to the problems of the church today lies in solving the problems of individual Christians, and the remedy is a person - the Holy Spirit.

Charles C. Ryrie

#41. I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

Lynn Swann

#42. Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

Pope Francis

#43. Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians.

A.W. Tozer

#44. You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

Vance Havner

#45. Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.

Graham Stanton

#46. There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

Ted Cruz

#47. I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs - I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

Al Jaffee

#48. The new covenant only begins after the cross, when the Holy Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost. There is a lot of confusion and wrong believing in the church today because many Christians read their Bibles without rightly dividing the old and new covenants.

Joseph Prince

#49. 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

#50. Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

David Bryant

#51. We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry ... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.

D. James Kennedy

#52. How often
today might Christians think they stand for "true" Christianity when what they stand for is a secular tradition-what cultural critic Raymond Williams would call a "selective tradition" (chapter five)-that has little to do with the kingdom of God?

Crystal L. Downing

#53. Never before have Christians been able to say that we have all the resources we need to reach every single person on the planet with the gospel, but we can today. There are no barriers standing in our way anymore - none, that is, except our own willingness.

Silus Lemmon

#54. The book is intended to help believing Christians "who today have been made insecure by scientific research and critical discussion, so that they may hold fast to faith in the person of Jesus Christ as the bringer of salvation and Savior of the world

Pope Benedict XVI

#55. Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.

Srda Trifkovic

#56. Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

Leonard Ravenhill

#57. The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make anything happen.

Sunday Adelaja

#58. How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little minds to understand.

Tom Robbins

#59. In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid.

Madeleine L'Engle

#60. Millions of Bible-reading Christians who today call themselves charismatics do not believe in health and wealth teachings.

Craig S. Keener

#61. Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#62. If the teachings of the early Christians changed Rome and the entire Roman Empire, we can't point to any great change that the teachings coming from our pulpits today are producing upon our world in general

Sunday Adelaja

#63. The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

Shane Claiborne

#64. People in today's world, whether Muslim or not, will not pay attention to Christians because we can explain our theology in crystal-clear terms. They will not esteem us because we give to charity or maintain a positive outlook on life. What will impress them is genuine love in our hearts.

Gracia Burnham

#65. In today's society, Christians have a bad rap for things like holding picketing signs, screaming mantras of hate, and bombing abortion clinics. Somehow, I don't think that's showing love.

Anna M. Aquino

#66. Today, many Christians don't seem concerned about the Old Testament, but apparently God still has concern for His Law, all the way to the end of time.

Jim Bakker

#67. Many of today's Christians are focused on obtaining what they want instead of being content knowing God will provide for their needs.

Jarrid Wilson

#68. New Testament Christians were most known by their love for their neighbors, but today we are most known for our segregation of the lowly.

Jefferson Bethke

#69. In today's newspaper there was a story about a married clergyman with three children who is calling for all sex to be declared un-Christian. He says lifelong virginity is the ideal for Christians. I wonder, has he told his wife and children this?

Wendy Buonaventura