Quotes on Christian

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

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

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

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

Author: Tammy Bakker

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.

Author: Stephen Baldwin

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

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

Author: Julia Barr

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Author: Henry Beecher

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

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

Author: Lionel Blue

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

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Author: Anne Bradstreet

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

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

Author: Rocco Buttiglione

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

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

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

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.

Author: Martin Chemnitz

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

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

Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

Author: Alice Cooper

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

Author: Francis Coppola

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.

Author: Charlie Daniels

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Author: John Darby

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Author: Christopher Dawson

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

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

I am a Christian.

Author: Jerry Falwell

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.

Author: Carrie Fisher

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

Author: Claire Forlani

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Author: Roger Fry

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

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.

Author: Billy Graham

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.

Author: Angelina Grimke

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.

Author: Patricia Heaton

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

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

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

My parents were Christian.

Author: Wyclef Jean

The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

Author: Jerry Jenkins

I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.

Author: Jerry Jenkins

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

Author: E. Jones

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

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

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Author: Arthur Keith

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

Author: Thomas Keneally

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

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

Author: Ken Kesey

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

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

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

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

Author: Helmut Kohl

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

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

Author: Artie Lange

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

Author: Bernhard Langer

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

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Author: Robert Lee

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

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Author: Martin Luther

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

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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Author: Herman Melville

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Author: Herman Melville

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Author: H. Mencken

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

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

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Author: Alfred Montapert

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

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

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

Author: John Motley

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Author: Hector Munro

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm a Christian by choice.

Author: Barack Obama

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

Author: Conor O'Brien

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

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

Author: Mike Pence

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Author: William Penn

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

Author: Troy Perry

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Author: John Polkinghorne

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

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

Author: Karl Rahner

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

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

Author: Douglas Reed

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

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

Author: Cliff Richard

When I became a Christian my confidence grew.

Author: Cliff Richard

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

Author: Pat Robertson

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

Author: Pat Robertson

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

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Author: David Rockefeller

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

Author: Linda Ronstadt

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

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

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

Author: Anton Rubinstein

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

Author: Robert Runcie

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

Author: Philip Schaff

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

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

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

Author: William Seward

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Author: George Shaw

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Author: Roger Sherman

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

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Author: Muriel Spark

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

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

Author: Nicholas Sparks

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Author: Charles Stanley

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

Author: Dean Stanley

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

Author: Scott Stapp

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

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

Author: Peter Stuyvesant

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

Author: Billy Sunday

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

Author: Billy Sunday

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

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

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

America should function as a Christian nation.

Author: Randall Terry

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

Author: Randall Terry

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

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

The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.

Author: Alexander Wiley

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

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

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Author: Edward Young

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Author: Israel Zangwill

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Author: Israel Zangwill