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Christian Quotes


"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."


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


"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."


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


"Christianity is part of the common law."


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


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


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


"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."


"There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book."


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


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


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


"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"


"To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan."


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


"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."


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


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


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


"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book."


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



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


"What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?"



"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."


"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."


"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."


"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
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