Top 100 Quotes About Christians
#1. The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.
George Carlin
#2. Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.
Dennis Prager
#4. The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.
Rodney Stark
#5. Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit ...
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#6. I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.
Dinesh D'Souza
#7. The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.
Harry Blamires
#8. The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.
Louis Evely
#9. The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.
Ann Coulter
#10. Certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.
C. Wagner
#11. The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.
Erwin McManus
#12. As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection of his Almighty arm. I fear that Christians in this country have too great a confidence in political institutions ... [rather] than of the government of God.
Alexander Carson
#13. Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
Conrad Black
#14. Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.
Stephen R. Prothero
#15. Christians must engage in "spiritual warfare" to combat same-sex marriage.
Michele Bachmann
#16. If all Christians must surrender their bodies to God in Christ whenever they enter the fellowship of Christ's body, then it should come as no great shock that God might actually make demands of those Christians and their bodies - demands proving that God, and God alone, has authority over us.
Wesley Hill
#17. Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe. If your believing is inaccurate your actions will be inaccurate and your faith will not produce. That is one of the most difficult things for Christians to grasp. Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe.
Jerry Savelle
#18. I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.
David Brooks
#19. Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Vance Havner
#20. Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#21. No one has to come see my shows who doesn't like me talking about white Christians. They are free not buy a ticket. They're free to leave at any time. So I'm not imposing anything on anyone. Therefore I feel free to cross the line.
George Carlin
#22. Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God
Sunday Adelaja
#23. Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.
Greg Laurie
#24. The reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'!
Pedro Okoro
#25. bread were being baked, or gold or silver purified in a furnace." Afterwards the Christians of Smyrna wish to collect his remains, desiring "to have a share in his holy flesh." Before they are allowed to do so, they have to overcome the objections of pagans and
Robert Bartlett
#26. The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
Francis Chan
#27. Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
John Stott
#28. Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. [Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.
Pope Benedict XVI
#30. Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.
Philip Zaleski
#31. Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#32. By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
Samuel Chase
#33. The primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#34. Christians began to slip in the late 1990s, expanding the tent to include white Catholics helped perpetuate the illusion that White Christian America was still the country's dominant religious culture. But
Robert P. Jones
#35. Religious strife where Christians and Muslims meet is real, and grim, but the long history of everyday encounter, of believers of different kinds shouldering all things together, even as they follow different faiths, is no less real.
Eliza Griswold
#36. It is estimated that fewer than ten percent of Christians have read the whole thing.
Mark Roncace
#37. The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.
Peter Kreeft
#39. We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
Shane Claiborne
#40. Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.
Timothy Keller
#42. God's most common way of answering prayers is through people. But for that to work, Christians must pay attention and listen, we must put ourselves in a position to see others' needs, and we must respond when God calls.
Adam Hamilton
#43. We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.
Paul Washer
#44. Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.
Tony Evans
#45. Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
Elaine Pagels
#46. We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.
Philip Berrigan
#47. The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important : They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.
Pope Francis
#48. The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
George Bernard Shaw
#49. The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.
Kenny Smith
#50. 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
#51. Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
Beverly Sills
#52. Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.
Wesley L. Duewel
#53. Satanists need to have more faith than Christians, because Christ was seen and felt. Lucifer has never felt the need to be seen, but in everyone's soul he can be felt.
Richard Ramirez
#54. 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
#55. Christ preaches only servitude and dependence ... True Christians are made to be slaves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#56. I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well. I am filled to overflowing with joy; I am not only satisfied to be in prison ... but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus Christ.
Mehdi Dibaj
#57. Satan is never better pleased, than when he sees Christians puzzled and perplexed about those things in religion, which are of no great consequence or importance.
Thomas Brooks
#58. The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.
Bartolome De Las Casas
#60. These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
Criss Jami
#61. But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?
Rajneesh
#62. Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.
Charles Caleb Colton
#63. I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians ... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#64. Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.
Kwasi Kwarteng
#65. I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
Anne Lamott
#66. Our desire for certainty, our need to be right, and our tendency to miss the point have conspired to keep Christians from experiencing unity, and instead have led to endless divisions within the Christian faith.
Adam Hamilton
#67. 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
#68. We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.
Martin Luther
#69. Back then his usual outfit was too-tight jeans, T-shirts with slogans intended to cause offence like 'So many Christians, so few lions', and cowboy boots.
Paul Thomas
#70. 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
#71. One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.
Max Lucado
#72. The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
Timothy Keller
#73. Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.
Thomas Brooks
#74. I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.
C.S. Lewis
#75. If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Ellen G. White
#76. Spain's churches, monuments, language, and literature are richly redolent of a unique, multifaith heritage. Muslims, Christians, and Jews had worked, worshipped, and interacted in Spain on a scale unparalleled and even unimaginable elsewhere in the medieval West.
Christopher Lowney
#77. I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard. I disagree with the theology of many groups that I address; Jews, for example, who do not accept Jesus, or atheists.
Gary Bauer
#78. I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
A. N. Wilson
#79. Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
Jorge Luis Borges
#80. There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus.
Monica Johnson
#81. Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.
Martin Luther
#82. Many Christians have succumbed to the anti-intellectual spirit of the world,
Vincent Cheung
#83. 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
#84. Christians need to have a mindset of victory, because God has destined us for victory
Sunday Adelaja
#85. The principal prayer and aim of Christians should be that we "walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God" (Col 1:10).
Arthur W. Pink
#86. Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system.
Billy Graham
#87. The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them
Charles Spurgeon
#88. As Christians, though there may be reasons to be troubled, there are greater reasons not to be.
T. B. Joshua
#89. Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.
Thomas Brooks
#90. I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that's my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians
Tony Campolo
#91. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.
Barack Obama
#92. Only surrendered Christians will make an impact on our world. The world does not need any more lukewarm Christians, or lazy Christians, or quarrelsome Christians, or doubting Christians, or prideful Christians.
Billy Graham
#93. Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
Julien Green
#94. We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#95. When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.
Tim LaHaye
#96. If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.
Richard Dawkins
#97. Then, as now, the cities were filled with the poor, and urban Christians' commitment to the poor was visible and striking.
Timothy Keller
#98. Do not let the Christians around you wonder when souls are saved, but urge them to believe in the undiminished power of the glad tidings, and teach them to marvel if no saving result follows the delivery of the testimony of Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#99. The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular.
Timothy Keller
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