Christian Quotes

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

~ Natalie Cole

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

~ Rowan Williams

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

~ Aaron Schock

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right.

~ Molly Ivins

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

~ Matt Taibbi

From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.

~ Burgess Owens

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

~ Jimmy Carr

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

~ Princess Margaret

Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

~ Karl Barth

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

~ Beth Ditto

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

~ Pat Robertson

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

~ Laurence J. Peter

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

~ Phil Jackson

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

~ James Dobson

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

~ Howard Stern

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

~ Voltaire

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

~ Gary Zukav

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

~ Jimmy Cliff

Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.

~ Pope Theodoros Ii

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

~ John Lothrop Motley

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

~ Jimmy Carter

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.

~ Ben Barnes

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

~ Karl Rahner