Christianity Quotes
258 quotes
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
"But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through."
"In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross."
"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!"
"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."
"Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!"
"Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively."
"It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished."
"We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone."
"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."
"Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel."
"The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time."
"You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle."
"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you."
"If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian."
"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood."
"In darkness God's truth shines most clear."
"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally."
"The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die."
"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither."
"Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us."
"Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."
"I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it."
"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
"Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew."
"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
"Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."
"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."
"One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests."
"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin."
"I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength"
"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages."
"Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God."
"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
"The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."
"You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself."
"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."
"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
"I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen."
"I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'"-"
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