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We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
Author:
Edward Young
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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.
Author:
William Yeats
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.
Author:
Alexander Wiley
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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Author:
Simone Weil
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Author:
Noah Webster
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
Author:
Noah Webster
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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.
Author:
Noah Webster
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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
Author:
Noah Webster
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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.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
Author:
Neale Walsch
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I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Author:
Marcia Wallace
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Author:
Voltaire
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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Author:
Alexandre Vinet
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
Author:
Randall Terry
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It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?
Author:
Randall Terry
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Author:
Randall Terry
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Author:
Randall Terry
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Author:
Randall Terry
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America should function as a Christian nation.
Author:
Randall Terry
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Author:
Randall Terry
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
Author:
Randall Terry
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
Author:
Randall Terry
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One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
Author:
Peter Stuyvesant
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.
Author:
John Strachan
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In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
Author:
John Strachan
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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
Author:
John Strachan
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I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.
Author:
Scott Stapp
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Author:
Dean Stanley
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A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
Author:
Charles Stanley
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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
Author:
Muriel Spark
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I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
Author:
Muriel Spark
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When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
Author:
Terry Southern
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I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream "secular" press has been very, very nice.
Author:
Daniel Smith
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Author:
Adam Smith
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What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
Author:
Clifford Simak
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Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Author:
Hu Shih
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It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Author:
Hu Shih
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All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Author:
Roger Sherman
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
Author:
George Shaw
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
Author:
William Seward
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As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.
Author:
Andres Serrano
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Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
Author:
Michael Scott
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'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
Author:
Michael Scheuer
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It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.
Author:
Fritz Sauckel
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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.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
Author:
Robert Runcie
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
Author:
Anton Rubinstein
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The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
Author:
Arundhati Roy
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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
Author:
Bob Riley
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I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Author:
Cliff Richard
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When I became a Christian my confidence grew.
Author:
Cliff Richard
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So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
Author:
Cliff Richard
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Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women - especially Christian women - need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography.
Author:
Donna Rice
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Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Author:
Anne Rice
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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
Author:
Anne Rice
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I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
Author:
Anne Rice
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It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
Author:
Douglas Reed
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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Author:
Karl Rahner
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I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.
Author:
Timothy Radcliffe
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
Author:
Edgar Quinet
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The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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My family background was deeply Christian.
Author:
Abbe Pierre
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Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Author:
Troy Perry
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
Author:
William Penn
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I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.
Author:
Mike Pence
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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.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
Author:
Vance Packard
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Author:
George Orwell
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I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.
Author:
Stacie Orrico
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As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.
Author:
Stacie Orrico
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It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.
Author:
Stacie Orrico
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I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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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.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
Author:
Conor O'Brien
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I'm a Christian by choice.
Author:
Barack Obama
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
Author:
Gary North
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
Author:
Larry Norman
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I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
Author:
Larry Norman
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The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Author:
Hector Munro
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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
Author:
John Motley
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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.
Author:
Roger Moore
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To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
Author:
Alan Moore
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I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
Author:
Sun Moon
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
Author:
Alfred Montapert
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Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.
Author:
Kenneth Miller
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Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
Author:
Keith Miller
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A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
Author:
Nelson Miles
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When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.
Author:
Tom Metzger
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In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
Author:
Angela Merkel
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We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
Author:
Angela Merkel
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Author:
Herman Melville
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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Author:
Herman Melville
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My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
Author:
Jay McShann
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For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
Author:
Bill McCartney
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
Author:
W. Maugham
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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.
Author:
Walter Martin
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A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
Author:
Jena Malone
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Author:
Martin Luther
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No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.
Author:
Belva Lockwood
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I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
Author:
Brian Littrell
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I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.
Author:
Hal Lindsey
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My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.
Author:
Adriana Lima
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Author:
C. Lewis
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
Author:
Karl Lehmann
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
Author:
Robert Lee
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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Author:
Robert Lee
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It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
Author:
Alvin Lee
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Author:
David Lawrence
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The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
Author:
William Laud
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The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Author:
Bernhard Langer
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A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Author:
Artie Lange
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I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.
Author:
Jonny Lang
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A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
Author:
Helmut Kohl
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I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
Author:
Horst Koehler
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It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.
Author:
Horst Koehler
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It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
Author:
Jack Kingston
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.
Author:
Francis Key
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Author:
Ken Kesey
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The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
Author:
Ken Kesey
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Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.
Author:
Thomas Keneally
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There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.
Author:
John Kellogg
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Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
Author:
Paul Kantner
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
Author:
E. Jones
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
Author:
E. Jones
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Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
Author:
Richard Johnson
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I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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My parents were Christian.
Author:
Wyclef Jean
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
Author:
Victoria Jackson
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
Author:
Victoria Jackson
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
Author:
William Inge
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I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!
Author:
Lauren Hutton
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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
Author:
David Hume
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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.
Author:
David Hume
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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Basil Hume
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
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Ernest Holmes
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As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
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Adolf Hitler
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When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
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James Hillman
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Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
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Elias Hicks
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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.
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Ken Hensley
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Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
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Ken Hensley
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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Patrick Henry
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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Patricia Heaton
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I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.
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Sean Hayes
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The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
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Mark Hatfield
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As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
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Mark Hatfield
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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William Gurnall
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
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Angelina Grimke
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It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
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Bede Griffiths
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I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.
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Jane Grey
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It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.
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Lee Greenwood
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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
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Simon Greenleaf
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It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
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Asa Gray
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Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
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Amy Grant
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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
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Billy Graham
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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
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Billy Graham
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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Author:
Billy Graham
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Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
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Billy Graham
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Johann Goethe
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Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
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Roger Fry
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We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.
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John Frame
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I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.
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Matthew Fox
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And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.
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Claire Forlani
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I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.
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Henry Fonda
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My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
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Henry Fonda
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
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Carrie Fisher
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Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
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Austin Farrer
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I am a Christian.
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Jerry Falwell
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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Ralph Emerson
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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.
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Jane Elliot
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Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
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Gregg Easterbrook
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Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
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Andy Dick
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For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
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Rick Derringer
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In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
Author:
Rick Derringer
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I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.
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Catherine Deneuve
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Daniel Defoe
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I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.
Author:
Howard Dean
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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
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Christopher Dawson
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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.
Author:
Christopher Dawson
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Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
Author:
Christopher Dawson
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Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
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John Darby
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My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
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Charlie Daniels
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I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
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Billy Corgan
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Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
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Alice Cooper
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If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
Author:
Bruce Cockburn
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Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
Author:
John Clayton
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
Author:
John Clayton
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We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.
Author:
Clayton Christensen
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Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
Author:
Carol Christ
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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Gilbert Chesterton
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As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
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Martin Chemnitz
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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.
Author:
Samuel Chase
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Author:
Edwin Chapin
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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Author:
Richard Cecil
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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.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
Author:
George Carey
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When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
Author:
Tony Campolo
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Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.
Author:
Kirk Cameron
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For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.
Author:
Rocco Buttiglione
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The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.
Author:
Rocco Buttiglione
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
Author:
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
Author:
T-Bone Burnett
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
Author:
Dan Brown
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Author:
Charlotte Bronte
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There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Author:
Susie Bright
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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Anne Bradstreet
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
Author:
Jack Bowman
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How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.
Author:
Neal Boortz
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Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
Author:
Pat Boone
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Politics are not the task of a Christian.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
Author:
Anne Boleyn
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I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
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Lionel Blue
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I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
Author:
Peter Berger
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
Author:
Pope Benedict XVI
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.
Author:
Sammy Baugh
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It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Author:
Karl Barth
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I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.
Author:
Julia Barr
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Author:
Albert Barnes
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For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.
Author:
William Barclay
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
Author:
Hans Balthasar
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I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
Author:
Stephen Baldwin
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
Author:
Tammy Bakker
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Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
Author:
Mary Astell
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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Author:
Thomas Arnold
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Author:
Johann Arndt
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It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
Author:
Johann Arndt
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You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
Author:
Sharron Angle
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I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol... But we need the tax money.
Author:
Walter Allen
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The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
Author:
Charles Allen
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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.
Author:
Mortimer Adler
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The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Author:
Mortimer Adler
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I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
Author:
Jensen Ackles
