Top 100 Quotes About Christian
#1. The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.
Eric Metaxas
#2. An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God
Sunday Adelaja
#3. The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain
#4. Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.
Brennan Manning
#5. Historically, the Christian life began with the public acknowledgment of two uncomfortable realities - evil and death - and in baptism, the Christian makes the audacious claim that neither one gets the final word.
Rachel Held Evans
#6. I think we all have room to grow. I think every Christian really does need to take up their cross in a lot of areas of life and say, "Man, listen, regardless of what kind of backlash I'm going to get, I need to stand for what I believe in."
LeCrae
#7. If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!
Leonard Ravenhill
#8. And I'm thankful, in that moment, full to the brim with gratitude that Christian is with me. He's here. My partner. My best friend.
Cynthia Hand
#10. Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.
Oprah Winfrey
#12. The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.
Billy Graham
#13. A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person who says they are a Christian and are not sensitive to sin, it does not lead them to confession, a person who is that way is not a Christian.
Paul Washer
#14. Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
Terry Eagleton
#15. A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Ellen G. White
#16. Some Christian leaders ... are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.
Billy Graham
#17. Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.
J.P. Moreland
#18. Living the Christian life means striving for holiness.
Billy Graham
#19. The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.
Max Heindel
#20. Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.
Michael Gove
#21. I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.
Sara Zarr
#22. We live in an age where ... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.
Pat Buchanan
#23. Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.
Jerry Bridges
#24. Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as "not Christian enough" or just a little theologically lacking?
Nick Rynerson
#25. irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#26. The Christian Miracle's chief disclosure is this: the Creator of the universe is not at war with us. Neither is his favor for sale; no number of brownie points can possibly buy it. God loves us freely and unconditionally.
Michael Guillen
#27. For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives were not good" is to fall into the impiety of questioning the wisdom of God in bestowing gifts of grace where He wills.
Frank E. Gaebelein
#28. I don't know how people can easily remain Christian if they get no fellowship. They may be able to do it intellectually, but part of the body of man is composed of spirit and parts of soul and of flesh.
Larry Norman
#30. I'm not saying the Christian life is effortless; the real question is Where are we focusing our efforts? Are we working hard to perform? Or are we working hard to rest in Christ's performance for us?
Tullian Tchividjian
#31. If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
Thomas Brooks
#32. As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
T.D. Jakes
#33. Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Vance Havner
#34. Are you a Christian? she said.
I answered:
I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim.
I am each and everyone of you my child, look into the mirror and you will see me,
as i see you..
Faruk H.T.
#35. When I prayed I was new," wrote a great theologian of Christian antiquity, "but when I stopped praying I became old." Prayer is the way to renewal and spiritual life. Prayer is aliveness to God. Prayer is strength, refreshment, and joy.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Of America
#36. There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.
Tim Kaine
#37. Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
Sophie Swetchine
#38. Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#39. The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!
Robert E.Lee
#40. O Christian, within a very little time you shall be rid of all your trials and your troubles.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. I really really love Christ, but I'm not a Christian.
Tori Amos
#42. The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#43. The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).
C.S. Lewis
#44. The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#45. A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
Mark Twain
#46. Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.
John Piper
#47. You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.
Kenny Luck
#48. As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.
William Gurnall
#49. Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian
Richelle Mead
#50. I'm a Buddhist. You might have a Christian obligation to catch pneumonia while you sit for two and a half hours listening to some twerp in a dress drone on about the virtue of wedded life but, dear as you are to me, I don't.
Natasha Pulley
#51. May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.
John Wesley
#52. What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.
Vincent Of Lerins
#53. Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
Brian D. McLaren
#54. Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#55. The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.
Rod Paige
#56. We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.
Dwight Edwards
#57. This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles us. Mary remains ever the path that leads to Christ. Every encounter with her can only result in an encounter with Christ himself
Pope Paul VI
#58. He [Joseph] was the wearisomest self-righteous Christian that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbors.
Annabella Bloom
#59. It is regrettable that many Christian psychologists talk more about such things as unconscious motivation and emotional damage than they do about sin and responsibility.
Larry Crabb
#60. From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor.
April Voytko Kempler
#61. The scholarship of Christian academics isn't recognized as scholarship at all unless it conforms to the prevailing rules of scholarship in the academic disciplines. This forces Christian scholars to accommodate and blend in; even when their work is excellent, it isn't identified as Christian.
Greg Forster
#62. A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
Roger Moore
#63. The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep
where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature
and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men ... Every Christian is to be a witness;
every follower of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#65. What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.
Camille Henrot
#66. From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of Christian superiority, except in technological terms. White
James Baldwin
#67. If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.
John Haynes Holmes
#68. A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.
Rick Warren
#70. We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.
Allen Johnson
#71. American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands.
Mike Huckabee
#72. Our Christian enthusiasts are evidently too stupid, as well as too insecure, to appreciate this. A revealing mark of their insecurity is their rage when public places are not annually given over to religious symbolism, and now, their fresh rage when palaces of private consumption do not follow suit.
Christopher Hitchens
#73. It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#74. Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.
Cornel West
#75. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.
Winston Churchill
#76. Sitting in a church building doesn't make you a Christian, just like sitting in a duck blind doesn't make you a duck hunter.
Jase Robertson
#77. 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
#78. The beautiful thing about being a Christian is that you never have to allow all the garbage from the road behind you to get flung onto where you walk today." (Life Hacks, p.32
Jon Morrison
#79. A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.
Benjamin Hart
#80. Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals.
Andrew James Pritchard
#81. It's taking all my self-control not to fuck you on the hood of this car, just to show you that you're mine, and if I want to buy you a fucking car, I'll buy you a fucking car Christian Grey
E.L. James
#82. As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
Shane Claiborne
#83. Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us
female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.
Ellen Hopkins
#84. The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.
Peter Hedges
#85. I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
Randy Alcorn
#86. This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!
Alexander Murdoch Mackay
#87. for the Christian, good acts are not the cover for improper motives but, instead, the fruit borne of a loving relationship with God.
Timothy Joseph Golden
#88. To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.
Richard Rohr
#89. When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.
Jonathan Falwell
#90. Love ... is a deep unity maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both parents ask, and receive, from God.
C.S. Lewis
#91. Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.
Pope Clement VIII
#92. In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.
C.I. Scofield
#93. A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.
Jean Vanier
#94. Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
Timothy Keller
#95. God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.
Ellen G. White
#96. You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
Donald Miller
#98. I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.
Ken Hensley
#99. One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
Criss Jami
#100. The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.
Rousas John Rushdoony
