Nominal Christian Quotes

#1. The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

Amy Carmichael

#2. If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

A.W. Tozer

#3. I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#4. Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

Ian McKellen

#5. It is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

James Hudson Taylor

#6. A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

Gene Veith

#8. For Satan, as for Marx, religion was an impediment to the grand design of transforming humanity from a collection of free-willed, autonomous individuals into a mass of self-corralling slaves who mistake security for liberty and try to keep the cognitive dissonance to a minimum in order to function.

Michael Walsh

#9. The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree;
The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee.

Walter Raleigh

#10. Though I constantly felt like I was out of my comfort zone, maybe God wanted me totally in a place of uneasiness in order that I might rely on Him. Truly, His power could be made perfect in my weakness.

Christy Barritt

#11. It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.

Sheldon Vanauken

#12. A list of the thirteen types of photograph (plus an afterthought): Aide-memoire Reportage Work of art Topography Erotica/Pornography Advertisement Abstract image Literature Text Autobiography Compositional Functional illustration Snapshot

William Boyd

#13. She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

Dave Eggers

#14. We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and that he blames himself for misfortunes for which he is clearly not responsible.

Sigmund Freud

#15. The fabric of our society needs mending.

Michael P. Michaud

#16. Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce

#17. I can live with my own mistakes. I can't live with anybody else's.

Victoria Beckham