Top 100 Religious Christian Quotes
#1. Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?
Michael Medved
#2. Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
Scott Adams
#3. Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable
the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
Rodney Stark
#4. In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God.
Wilferd Peterson
#5. The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
David Barton
#6. 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
#7. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.
Walter Chantry
#8. The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.
D. James Kennedy
#9. Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
Ben Stein
#10. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James Duncan
#11. Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.
Dennis Prager
#12. The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.
David Barton
#13. Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#14. The Court explained the problem with his writings (People v. Ruggles. 1811.): an attack on Jesus Christ was an attack on Christianity; and an attack on Christianity was an attack on the foundation of the country; therefore, an attack on Jesus Christ was equivalent to an attack on the country!
David Barton
#15. Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#16. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
Rumi
#17. Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.
Chris Matthews
#18. As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#19. A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only spontaneously add a soul when we evolved into Homo sapiens?
David G. McAfee
#20. As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.
Robert Bork
#21. There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books ... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.
Paul Vitz
#22. In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.
Maximus The Confessor
#23. [There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.
Gerda Lerner
#24. The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new 'modern' concept which even now remains vague and nebulous, having changed several times in recent years.
David Barton
#25. We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.
Max Lucado
#26. By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.
Wilferd Peterson
#27. He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.
William Law
#28. Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
Andy Stanley
#29. I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
Nick Cave
#30. Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.
Paul Vitz
#31. Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
Joyce Meyer
#32. For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.
Alister E. McGrath
#33. It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.
James J. Kilpatrick
#34. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.
Timothy Keller
#35. You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.
Daniel Lapin
#36. The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
Benjamin Disraeli
#37. His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers ... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#39. What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.
Dan Quayle
#40. The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.
Ronald H. Nash
#41. The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.
F. LaGard Smith
#42. He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.
Walter J. Moore
#43. From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.
William Law
#44. Toleration made the world anti-Christian.
John Cotton
#45. Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time the Christians and the Jews and other minorities are fleeing the Middle East, churches are being burnt, nobody is talking about it. Where are the religious freedom of the minorities.
Mark Durie
#46. I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.
DJ Ashba
#47. Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.
Daniel Lapin
#48. The Christian is a [person] of joy ... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.
William Barclay
#49. Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#51. The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#52. The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!
Albert Martin
#53. Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect ... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically ... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!
Adolf Hitler
#55. No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).
David Jeremiah
#56. Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you.
Maximus The Confessor
#57. I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.
William A. Dembski
#58. Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.
Maximus The Confessor
#59. The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.
Walter Kasper
#60. Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.
David Jeremiah
#61. The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.
Mickey Rooney
#62. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
Leonard Ravenhill
#63. The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.
Theophan The Recluse
#64. Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.
Wilferd Peterson
#65. That huge majority of black folks who identify as Christian or as believers in other religious faiths (Islam, Buddhism, Yoruba, and so on) need to return to sacred writings about love and embrace these as guides showing us the way to lead our lives.
Bell Hooks
#66. In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.
Rick Scarborough
#67. Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.
Maximus The Confessor
#68. Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? What about the one who molded us out of the earth itself, who formed us like clay, and instilled within us the very breath of life that shaped the universe?
James D. Maxon
#69. Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.
Saint John Chrysostom
#70. For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. I'm proud to be a Christian, and as president, I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now.
Donald Trump
#71. Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.
Joel Hunter
#72. One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.
Andy Stanley
#73. The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .
Russell Kirk
#74. Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
C.S. Lewis
#75. Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.
Charles Colson
#76. Accommodate the quickly expanding population. Intrigued, Warren contacted religious leaders in Southern California who told him that many locals self-identified as Christian but didn't attend services. In the dusty, dimly lit basement of that university
Charles Duhigg
#77. Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
Thomas Jefferson
#78. Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one
Sunday Adelaja
#79. If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#80. Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.
H. Wayne House
#81. I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition.
Paul Blanshard
#82. Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.
Tim LaHaye
#83. As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.
William Zinsser
#84. God meets our needs one day at a time.
Max Lucado
#85. Some suffer much from poverty and sickness, but are not humbled, and so they suffer without profit. But one who is humbled will be happy in all circumstances, because the Lord is his riches and joy, and all people will wonder at the beauty of his soul.
Silouan The Athonite
#87. Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Maximus The Confessor
#88. There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
Robert Bork
#90. Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.
Silouan The Athonite
#91. The arbitrary division between church and state ... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.
Francis Schaeffer
#92. The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
Warren E. Burger
#93. Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.
William Anthony Donohue
#94. She leaned toward him and said in a quiet voice, "Are you Christian?"
Mitchell hesitated to answer. The worst thing about religion was religious people.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#95. In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
William Bennett
#96. By definition, a 'Sisterchick' is a 'friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and gives you a reality check when you're being a brat.
Robin Jones Gunn
#97. Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#98. As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#99. Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.
Hudson Taylor
#100. If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.
Isaac Of Nineveh
