Christian Quotes

Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.

~ Mike Huckabee

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

~ George Orwell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

~ Bertrand Russell

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

~ David Hume

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

~ Richard Mentor Johnson

A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

~ Marilynne Robinson

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

~ Jakob Böhme

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

~ Jane Elliot

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

~ Noah Webster

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

~ Samuel Butler

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

~ Saint Augustine

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

~ Barbara Walters

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

~ Christopher Dawson

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

~ Richard Dawkins

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

~ Allyson Felix

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

~ Thomas Paine

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

~ Trey Parker

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

~ Bernhard Langer

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

~ Marvin Olasky

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

~ Walter Martin

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

~ Charles Spurgeon

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

~ Desmond Tutu

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

~ Anne Rice

A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.

~ Jakob Böhme

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

~ Billy Graham

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.

~ John Wycliffe

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

~ Alexandre Vinet

St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.

~ Mother Angelica

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

~ William Butler Yeats

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

~ Richard Rohr

When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

~ Denis Leary

In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

~ Karolyn Grimes

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.

~ Tim Tebow

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

~ Philip Yancey

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

~ Bear Grylls

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

~ Mortimer Adler

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

~ Ravi Zacharias

Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.

~ Franklin Graham