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Christian Quotes


"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."


"Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament."


"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."


"I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day."


"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."


"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."


"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried."


"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."


"The Christian market has less competition and lower standards."


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


"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."


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


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


"I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John."


"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."


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


"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."


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


"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."
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