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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."


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


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


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


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



"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."


"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."


"The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing."


"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."


"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."


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


"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."


"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas."


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


"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."


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


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


"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."



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


"Christianity is part of the Common Law of England."



"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."


"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."


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


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


"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."


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


"That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance."



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