“Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.”
― A.J. Styles
“Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.”
― Aaron Schock
“My family background was deeply Christian.”
― Abbe Pierre
“I would say I am a mediocre Christian.”
― Abby Johnson
“I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.”
― Adam Ant
“I like Christian Bale. I’ve heard he’s a big fan of mine, but I certainly reciprocate. I think he’s really very good.”
― Adam West
“We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.”
― Adoniram Judson
“My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They’re sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!”
― Adrienne Bailon
“I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.”
― Aimee Bender
“During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.”
― Al Sharpton
“Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.”
― Alain de Botton
“To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You’ve got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.”
― Alan Moore
“Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.”
― Alexandre Vinet
“Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.”
― Alfred A. Montapert
“I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.”
― Allyson Felix
“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.”
― Alvin Lee
“Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.”
― Amy Grant
“I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing… chanting hymns containing the word ‘Hosanna.’”
― Amy Jackson
“On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.”
― Andre Leon Talley
“I’m a Christian who happens to be an athlete, not the other way around.”
― Andre Ward
“It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.”
― Andrea Bocelli
“I am a very committed Christian. I think my values and everything I do is driven by that.”
― Andrea Leadsom
“I absolutely am a Christian, and I am very proud of it.”
― Andrea Leadsom
“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.”
― Andres Serrano
“The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.”
― Andrew Mwenda
“If someone announces me as a ‘Christian rapper,’ there’s still an ‘Eh, no thanks.’ But perceptions are starting to change.”
― Andy Mineo
“I don’t like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It’s hip-hop. I’m a rapper.”
― Andy Mineo
“I had a lot of friends be kind of standoffish after I became a Christian.”
― Andy Mineo
“Being a Christian and seeing that white evangelical Christians were primarily the people who put guys like Donald Trump into office made my entire world explode.”
― Andy Mineo
“I do a joke in my stand-up where I say I’m a Christian, but I’m not a Christian comedian. I think that’s definitely how I see my acting. I’m an actor who happens to be a Christian.”
― Anjelah Johnson
“I’m a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don’t you ever forget it.”
― Ann Coulter
“When I have a big enough handbag to carry a little pair of booties with, I always do – those pointy Christian Louboutin heels are just no fun to walk around in.”
― Anna Kendrick
“A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.”
― Anne Bradstreet
“Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I’m not carried in Christian bookstores.”
― Anne Lamott
“Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.”
― Anne Rice
“I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.”
― Anne Rice
“I’m not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.”
― Annie Lennox
“The usual Republican suspects lined up to side with Trump, chastizing Pope Francis for insinuating that the candidate isn’t Christian.”
― Anthea Butler
“Not every conservative Christian is a dominionist, but to say a movement doesn’t exist, as some pundits and journalists have, without even being able to say what it is in an op-ed is just irresponsible… The big story is that the religious right isn’t dead.”
― Anthea Butler
“The ‘teavangelicals’ of the 21st century have flipped the script, turning their ideas about Christianity, social responsibility, and care for the downtrodden into a mythology of Christian founding fathers.”
― Anthea Butler
“Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.”
― Anton Rubinstein
“I consider myself a Christian – a true believer in Jesus Christ – that He died for our sins.”
― Antonio Sabato, Jr.
“I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.”
― Aravind Adiga
“Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.”
― Arthur Keith
“A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.”
― Artie Lange
“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.”
― Arundhati Roy
“It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.”
― Asa Gray
“Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.”
― Austin Farrer
“We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.”
― Ban Ki-moon
“One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
― Barack Obama
“I’m a Christian by choice.”
― Barack Obama
“First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.”
― Barbara Walters
“I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.”
― Barry Goldwater
“The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose ‘family values’ agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.”
― Barton Gellman
“And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.”
― Bear Grylls
“No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.”
― Belva Lockwood
“My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.”
― Ben Barnes
“As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.”
― Ben Zobrist
“We know that as a Christian athlete, people are watching, and so we want to be the best example we can be and show that we are different – that Christ has changed our lives.”
― Ben Zobrist
“When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You’re not a broadcaster who happens to be Christian. You’re a Christian.”
― Benjamin Watson
“Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.”
― Beth Ditto
“Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into the comics.”
― Bil Keane
“Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There’s a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.”
― Billy Corgan
“A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
― Billy Graham
“The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.”
― Billy Graham
“When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.”
― Billy Sunday
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday
“The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.”
― Bono
“So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.”
― Bono
“There’s been so many rivals, most of them Canadian guys like Rick Martel, Christian and Chris Benoit. Those guys were all ultimate professionals, every one of them.”
― Booker T
“I’d say that ‘Tree of Life’ is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.”
― Brad Pitt
“I was baptized Catholic, but I don’t – I’m just a Christian. Anybody that has any room to judge any other Christian isn’t very Christian to begin with.”
― Brady Jandreau
“I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.”
― Brandon Victor Dixon
“Completely committed to adapting ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.”
― Bret Easton Ellis
“We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.”
― C. S. Lewis
“Christian Scientists not only don’t like to acknowledge illness; they don’t like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my room from the dinner table for sneezing or coughing; I now know that I was allergic to our cat.”
― Caroline Fraser
“By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.”
― Caroline Leavitt
“I don’t enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It’s very Christian.”
― Catherine Deneuve
“I don’t make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.”
― Chance The Rapper
“When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, ‘This is Christian rap. I’m not trying to hear it.’ But it’s the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.”
― Chance The Rapper
“I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.”
― Charles H. Townes
“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.”
― Charles L. Allen
“Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.”
― Charles R. Swindoll
“There is such a thing as ‘thanks-feeling’ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.”
― Charles Spurgeon
“The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don’t even like the word.”
― Charles Stanley
“A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it’s a spiritual fight.”
― Charles Stanley
“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.”
― Charlie Daniels
“Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.”
― Charlotte Bronte
“As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law.”
― Chellie Pingree
“People have this impression that I’m this crazy Christian, but I’m really balanced.”
― Cheryl James
“Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It’s not Planned Parenthood; it’s the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created.”
― Chris Smith
“I’ve got Christian Louboutin’ s 6 1/4-inch Equestria boots. I wear them so much, I turned the red bottoms brown!”
― Christina Milian
“I am a Christian. I haven’t really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.”
― Christina Ricci
“Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.”
― Christopher Dawson
“Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.”
― Christopher Dawson
“I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.”
― Claire Forlani
“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.”
― Clayton M. Christensen
“When I became a Christian my confidence grew.”
― Cliff Richard
“So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.”
― Cliff Richard
“Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.”
― Conor Cruise O’Brien
“I’m an old Coltrane disciple just like I’m a Christian.”
― Cornel West
“I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn’t have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.”
― Craig Thompson
“I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.”
― Craig Thompson
“No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible – to read the history and theology.”
― D. A. Carson
“I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.”
― D. B. Sweeney
“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”
― D. H. Lawrence
“I’m a Christian, but I’ve coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions.”
― Dabo Swinney
“There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.”
― Dalai Lama
“Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.”
― Dan Brown
“I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.”
― Dan Quayle
“You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.”
― Dan Severson
“I’m a weensy-government conservative from the Midwest, Christian, mother of two, homeschooler, and my hobby, profession, and passion is news.”
― Dana Loesch
“I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg
“I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.”
― Danny Gokey
“I am an unapologetic Christian, constitutional conservative, pro-life, Second Amendment-loving American!”
― Darryl Glenn
“I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that’s a very Christian thing to do.”
― Davey Havok
“I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.”
― David A. R. White
“It’s important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don’t discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don’t really matter.”
― David A. R. White
“People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.”
― David Blunkett
“I had a lot of very religious influences – Christian religious.”
― David Cassidy
“It’s a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. ‘Coriolanus’ shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.”
― David Farr
“I can like Michael Keaton’s Batman, and I can like Christian Bale’s Batman.”
― David Harbour
“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”
― David Hume
“To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.”
― David Hume
“Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.”
― David Novak
“As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.”
― David Novak
“All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community’s revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.”
― David Novak
“Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of ‘original sin’ does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.”
― David Novak
“It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.”
― David Novak
“It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level.”
― David Novak
“The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.”
― David Rockefeller
“The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.”
― Dean Stanley
“I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.”
― Dee Snider
“The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.”
― Dennis Prager
“The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus’ people.”
― Dennis Prager
“I was a Christian when I was young and didn’t know any better.”
― Derren Brown
“Politics are not the task of a Christian.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Most of the debates I’ve participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.”
― Dinesh D’Souza
“The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.”
― Donald Miller
“It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.”
― Douglas Reed
“Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects… the list is endless.”
― Dries van Noten
“I’m marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.”
― Duane Chapman
“Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.”
― E. Stanley Jones
“When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.”
― E. Stanley Jones
“Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.”
― Edgar Quinet
“The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.”
― Edward McKendree Bounds
“A Christian is the highest style of man.”
― Edward Young
“An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.”
― Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I’d heard when I was growing up were simply made up – and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.”
― Elaine Pagels
“What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.”
― Elaine Pagels
“Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.”
― Elias Hicks
“Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.”
― Ellen G. White
“A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.”
― Ellen G. White
“The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.”
― Elliott Abrams
“For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg
“My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.”
― Emilia Wickstead
“For many Sudanese, it’s for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.”
― Emmanuel Jal
“’The Purpose-Driven Life’ is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.”
― Eric Liu
“A Christian worldview impacts every area of life. Including making your house a home.”
― Eric Metaxas
“I’m not an atheist, but I’m not a Christian, either.”
― Eric Whitacre
“I became a Christian because I met God.”
― Erwin McManus
“All through history, a nation or a civilization’s enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions – the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.”
― F. Sionil Jose
“I had been raised in the church, but I wasn’t a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.”
― Francine Rivers
“I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.”
― Francine Rivers
“As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused.”
― Francis Collins
“I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It’s the cornerstone of my Christian faith.”
― Francis Collins
“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.”
― Francis Ford Coppola
“I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I think Newt Gingrich is a Christian; at least, he told me he is.”
― Franklin Graham
“Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.”
― Franklin Graham
“Whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or atheist, everybody has a place in this society.”
― Frans Timmermans
“I went to an all-girls’ Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, ‘Mum, that’s it – I need to go where there are some boys.’”
― Freida Pinto
“The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.”
― Fritz Sauckel
“There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a church, the other would be a missionary. I didn’t particularly like snakes, so I decided I should probably be a pastor.”
― Gary Chapman
“I was raised a Christian. I’d like to think I have Christian values. I don’t attend church.”
― Gary Johnson
“Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.”
― Gary North
“Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.”
― Gary Weiss
“The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.”
― Gene Luen Yang
“My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I’ve been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.”
― George Allen
“I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“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.”
― George Carey
“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
― George Orwell
“I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.”
― Gian Carlo Menotti
“In real life I’m a tall, blond Christian.”
― Gilbert Gottfried
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
“There is dissatisfaction among a great many Christian people. They are not happy with what they have and, therefore, respond readily to the message of the restored gospel.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
“Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.”
― Gore Vidal
“Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”
― H. L. Mencken
“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.”
― Hal Lindsey
“In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That’s my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.”
― Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
“One of my favourite exhibitions is called ‘Do It,’ which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.”
― Hans-Ulrich Obrist
“No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.”
― Hector Hugh Munro
“I’d describe myself as a Christian who doesn’t believe in God.”
― Helen Mirren
“I can’t help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.”
― Helen Mirren
“The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.”
― Helmut Kohl
“As a Christian Scientist, I don’t go to doctors and get diagnoses.”
― Henry Paulson
“If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
― Herman Melville
“I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.”
― Horst Koehler
“It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German – one of us – has been made Pope.”
― Horst Koehler
“The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.”
― Howard Jacobson
“If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish characteristics as Christian sentiment found other places to express itself, early socialism being one of them.”
― Howard Jacobson
“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.”
― Hu Shih
“I’ve been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.”
― Ioan Gruffudd
“Well, I’m still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I’m trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.”
― Isabelle Fuhrman
“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.”
― Israel Zangwill
“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”
― Israel Zangwill
“The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.”
― J. D. Vance
“I eventually got to the point where I was like, ‘Well, if I can’t believe in the Big Bang Theory and be a good Christian, then maybe I’m not a good Christian.’”
― J. D. Vance
“If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.”
― J. K. Rowling
“I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien
“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.”
― Jack Kingston
“This history of a secular state doesn’t exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.”
― Jair Bolsonaro
“A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.”
― Jakob Bohme
“A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.”
― Jakob Bohme
“My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.”
― James Lankford
“There’s a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.”
― James Redfield
“I wear a lot of Sophia Webster – her stuff is so fun – and Christian Louboutin, of course.”
― Jamie Chung
“I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don’t have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.”
― Jan Karon
“I’m not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn’t have occurred to me.”
― Jane Fonda
“I had to be steadfast in my Christian beliefs, seeking strength from them.”
― Jane Hawking
“I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody’s raised Christian, but at this point, I’m 41 years old, and I’ve been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.”
― Jason Aaron
“Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn’t do it.”
― Jason Bateman
“My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.”
― Jay McShann
“As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.”
― Jay Parini
“I’m an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.”
― Jeff Vandermeer
“I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself – you and God – at some point.”
― Jerry B. Jenkins
“I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.”
― Jerry B. Jenkins
“The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.”
― Jerry B. Jenkins
“We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.”
― Jerry Bridges
“If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I am a Christian.”
― Jerry Falwell
“You cannot be a Christian and support the Democrat Party.”
― Jesse Lee Peterson
“Honestly, if they were Christian refugees coming in, I think the Obama administration would vet them a little more toughly.”
― Jesse Watters
“I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.”
― Jessica Williams
“I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.”
― Jimmy Carr
“In my house, I’m not allowed to shout at anybody. It’s very strict. It’s a very Christian home.”
― Joel Courtney
“My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.”
― Joel Osteen
“I’m part Jewish and part Christian, but I’m mostly Jewish.”
― Joey King
“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.”
― Johann Arndt
“The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.”
― John Bradshaw
“There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.”
― John D. Rockefeller
“There’s a lot of America that’s Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.”
― John Edwards
“A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.”
― John Foxe
“We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God’s commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.”
― John Frame
“I’m a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.”
― John Grisham
“Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.”
― John Nelson Darby
“There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.”
― John Piper
“I think it’s very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.”
― John Polkinghorne
“According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.”
― John Quincy Adams
“I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.”
― John Rhys-Davies
“I’m not a Christian for your benefit. I’m a Christian for my benefit, and how I walk my walk is my business, and how you walk your walk is your business.”
― John Schneider
“Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.”
― John Shelby Spong
“The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.”
― John Shelby Spong
“Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.”
― John Shelby Spong
“I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.”
― John Shelby Spong
“In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.”
― John Strachan
“St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand – which formed the primitive Church.”
― John Strachan
“I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids’ music.”
― John Tesh
“A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.”
― John Updike
“When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!”
― John Wesley
“I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.”
― Johnny Cash
“Having that Christian base keeps me focused on what I have to do. It keeps me out of the clubs and in the gym.”
― Jon Jones
“In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn’t get squeamish about it.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada
“The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.”
― Joseph Butler
“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.”
― Joseph Lancaster
“It’s far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.”
― Josh Hawley
“Trumpists want a return to a white, Christian America.”
― Joy Reid
“Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.”
― Joyce Meyer
“The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.”
― Joyce Meyer
“Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.”
― Joyce Meyer
“Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.”
― Joyce Meyer
“I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I’m a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.”
― Julie Burchill
“You don’t need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn’t make you a taco.”
― Justin Bieber
“Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.”
― Kamal Haasan
“Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.”
― Karl Kraus
“The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”
― Karl Rahner
“Well, I’m a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.”
― Karl Rove
“In all, I was in 16 movies, including ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in ‘Rio Grande’ with John Wayne, ‘Albuquerque’ with Randall Scott, ‘Blue Skies’ with Bing Crosby and ‘Hans Christian Anderson’ with Danny Kaye.”
― Karolyn Grimes
“When my agents tell me how much I’m going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they’ll say: ‘You’re going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.’”
― Kate Mara
“Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.”
― Katha Pollitt
“Egypt is home to the largest Christian population in the Middle East, largely because they’ve been persecuted to brink of extinction everywhere else in the region.”
― Katie Pavlich
“When I visited Israel for the first time, in 2014, on a trip sponsored by the National Religious Broadcasters, I went to the Museum of The Bible with our group. There, we saw the most ancient and original versions of both the Hebrew and Christian bibles.”
― Katie Pavlich
“The world’s oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.”
― Katie Pavlich
“The fact is, in Mike Huckabee’s case, he can say, ‘I was a preacher, I’m a Christian, and so I believe that life begins at conception, ends at natural death.’”
― Kellyanne Conway
“I might not be a good socialist, any more than I’m a good Christian, but I am one.”
― Ken Follett
“I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.”
― Ken Kesey
“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?”
― Ken Kesey
“The most that one of Jewish faith can do – and some have gladly done it – is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.”
― Kenneth Scott Latourette
“I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I’m speaking as a Christian because I’m speaking as myself.”
― Krista Tippett
“I want to be a Christian like Christ – loving and accepting of other people.”
― Kristin Chenoweth
“I am a Christian and I don’t want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.”
― Kristin Chenoweth
“My wife had been a Christian since twelve years old.”
― Kurt Warner
“I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.”
― Larry MacPhail
“I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.”
― Larry Norman
“I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It’s not really being exposed to non-Christians and it’s not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.”
― Larry Norman
“I definitely don’t want to only make music in the Christian genre. I want to expand and kind of dive into whatever else is in store. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love what I get to do as well.”
― Lauren Daigle
“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!”
― Lauren Hutton
“Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.”
― Laurence J. Peter
“There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.”
― Laurence Sterne
“My music is not Christian – Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.”
― Lecrae
“Many times, that’s how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.”
― Lecrae
“When you’re part of hip-hop culture but you’re a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they’ll create a category for you, like, ‘Oh, gospel rap!’”
― Lecrae
“My views as a Christian means there’s a moral plumb line that I’m fighting to adhere to.”
― Lecrae
“For a lot of people, groups, Christians included, issues are homogenized. And so to be a Christian, I’m either this staunch, conservative Republican, or I’m this tree-hugging liberal. You’re stereotyped. It’s almost assumed that people know what your issues are going to be.”
― Lecrae
“It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.”
― Lee Greenwood
“In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.”
― Leland Ryken
“A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.”
― Leland Ryken
“War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.”
― Lewis B. Smedes
“I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.”
― Lincoln Steffens
“I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn’t have to go very far to pick up their know-how.”
― Lionel Blue
“The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.”
― Lionel Blue
“For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.”
― Lionel Blue
“I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.”
― Lionel Blue
“This Christian poison hasn’t stopped yet.”
― Lionel Blue
“Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.”
― Luis Palau
“I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.”
― Luke Ford
“I never thought I would ever be middle-of-the-road anything, much less a middle-of-the-road Christian, but it actually ended up I’m extremely middle of the road.”
― M. Scott Peck
“Since the early 1960s, since what’s been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that virtually every problem a human can have is of demonic origin.”
― M. Scott Peck
“Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.”
― Maggie Gallagher
“I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren’t allowed to really watch anything violent, even ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.’”
― Maggie Grace
“My family is a praying family, a Christian family.”
― Magic Johnson
“I wasn’t raised Christian. I certainly had to seek Him out and find Him, and it’s changed my life. I’m so glad I did.”
― Malachi Kirby
“Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.”
― Marc Martel
“I’m theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.”
― Marco Rubio
“I don’t even call myself a Christian.”
― Marcus Mumford
“I listen to Christian music.”
― Mariano Rivera
“A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.”
― Marilynne Robinson
“I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.”
― Marilynne Robinson
“This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.”
― Marjane Satrapi
“As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.”
― Mark Hatfield
“I’m a Christian, and I forgive people. That’s the mature thing to do.”
― Mark Henry
“The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.”
― Mark Twain
“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.”
― Martin Chemnitz
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
― Martin Luther
“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”
― Martin Luther
“I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.”
― Marvin Olasky
“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.”
― Marvin Olasky
“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”
― Mary Astell
“I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.”
― Mat Kearney
“I’m unapologetic for the fact my Christian faith defines my decision-making process. I will bring those Christian principles and that mindset to Frankfort.”
― Matt Bevin
“I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren’t even allowed to watch ‘secular’ television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.”
― Matt Bomer
“My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.”
― Matt Bomer
“I’m a Christian, and I believe the Immaculate Conception was how Jesus was born.”
― Matt Gaetz
“Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.”
― Matt Taibbi
“It is evident that the fanatical interpretation of the Koran is incompatible with our values of freedom and with Christian values.”
― Matteo Salvini
“I grew up in Spokane, Washington, in a very Christian, conservative home.”
― Matty Mullins
“I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.”
― Matty Mullins
“I’m not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?”
― Maurice Sendak
“In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the Mohammedan of Seven Archangels, and our Christian religion has its Seven Spirits before the Throne.”
― Max Heindel
“I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian – one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.”
― Meghan McCain
“Catholics and evangelicals should be troubled by Mrs. Clinton’s hidden agenda to influence and alter the tenets of Christian and Catholic orthodoxy.”
― Mercedes Schlapp
“I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.”
― Michael Chang
“I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I’ve never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial, when I realized his guilt and that I had been partially duped.”
― Michael Finkel
“Well I’ve been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they’re Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.”
― Michael Gove
“There aren’t many contemporary Christian leaders who are both energetic in their condemnation of the crimes of communism and robust in their analysis of the evil of Islamism, but Justin Welby stands out.”
― Michael Gove
“The Vikings certainly didn’t write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.”
― Michael Hirst
“I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on ‘Aesop’s Fables,’ ‘Brothers Grimm,’ ‘La Fontaine,’ all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.”
― Michael Morpurgo
“’The war in Iraq – if Osama was a Christian – it’s the Christmas present he never would have expected.”
― Michael Scheuer
“I’m not a Christian.”
― Michael Sheen
“When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.”
― Michaela Coel
“I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K. I started performing from then, really.”
― Michaela Coel
“So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I’m past all that.”
― Michel Faber
“For red-carpet gowns, Christian Siriano is one of my favourites.”
― Michelle Visage
“I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.”
― Mike Pence
“In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn’t Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we shouldn’t say Merry Christmas to anyone. The logic is bizarre!”
― Milo Yiannopoulos
“In these interviews, they’ve been asking me for a while, ‘If you could do a scene with anybody that you haven’t done a scene with yet, who would it be?’ It would be Christian Stolte. He’s the most incredible actor. He is always the smartest person in the room.”
― Miranda Rae Mayo
“Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.”
― Miroslav Volf
“In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a ‘teetotal Christian,’ which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.”
― Moby
“Holiness through Christ’s Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.”
― Monica Johnson
“The word of God is a Christian’s instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.”
― Monica Johnson
“Not to be harsh, but why do we care so much about celebrity acceptance of Christian beliefs?”
― Monica Johnson
“Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God’s word without subjectivity.”
― Monica Johnson
“It’s a shame that so many people are so intimidated and bothered by Tim Tebow’s stance as a Christian. He’s not bothering anybody. He’s simply being who He is and giving all glory to His Lord.”
― Monica Johnson
“A Christian’s celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.”
― Monica Johnson
“Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It’s not.”
― Monica Johnson
“As a Christian, we can’t stand on the sidelines with no team jersey or team colors to show our allegiance to Christ.”
― Monica Johnson
“A Christian’s example is always Jesus.”
― Monica Johnson
“Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.”
― Monica Johnson
“A Christian without a God who hears them? That’s not a place that one who truly serves Christ wants to find themselves.”
― Monica Johnson
“As the word ‘tolerance’ grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking.”
― Monica Johnson
“The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.”
― Mortimer Adler
“One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.”
― Mortimer Adler
“Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few – it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.”
― Mother Angelica
“No Christian needs to feel lonely or useless.”
― Mother Angelica
“Every Christian is important – important to God, to the world, and to the kingdom.”
― Mother Angelica
“I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.”
― Mr. T
“I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.”
― Mr. T
“I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.”
― Mr. T
“I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.”
― Mr. T
“I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.”
― Mr. T
“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.”
― Muriel Spark
“I wouldn’t take the Pope too seriously. He’s a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.”
― Muriel Spark
“My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith.”
― Myles Kennedy
“Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.”
― N. T. Wright
“We all are Indians, and that should be our only religion. What is the need to be called a Hindu, Muslim, or Christian? Does anybody have any religion or caste at the time of birth?”
― Nana Patekar
“After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.”
― Naomi Klein
“I’m a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian – I’ve always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.”
― Natalie Cole
“We seem to be the victims of religious dogma, both from the Christian Right here and, of course, in the East with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.”
― Naveen Andrews
“I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn’t was that my father was a Christian.”
― Neko Case
“My mom’s side, they’re southern Baptist Christian.”
― Nelsan Ellis
“A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.”
― Nelson A. Miles
“If you’re a Christian, and you’re a plumber, are you a Christian plumber?”
― NF
“I’m a Christian, but I’m just an artist. I’m a musician.”
― NF
“Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.”
― Nick Cave
“I’m a Christian.”
― Nick Foles
“My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I’m in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.”
― Nick Jonas
“My dad’s Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.”
― Nikki Reed
“Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he… in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.”
― Nina Easton
“The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.”
― Noah Webster
“I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.”
― Noam Chomsky
“I don’t think it’s a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.”
― Norman Finkelstein
“A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.”
― Nostradamus
“I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.”
― Olivia Newton-John
“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.”
― Orson Pratt
“I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.”
― Oscar Isaac
“No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.”
― Otto von Bismarck
“From America’s schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.”
― Pat Buchanan
“The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.”
― Pat Robertson
“Are we a Christian nation now? It’s doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.”
― 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.”
― Pat Robertson
“The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.”
― Pat Robertson
“When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.”
― Pat Robertson
“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.”
― Patricia Heaton
“I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.”
― Patricia Ireland
“My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.”
― Patsy Kensit
“I’m a Christian but only me and the Lord know that for sure.”
― Paul Broun
“There is clothing that is improper for a Christian woman.”
― Paul Washer
“There is no such thing as a continuously carnal Christian.”
― Paul Washer
“I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.”
― Penn Jillette
“ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity of the unborn child explain why some Christian fundamentalists attack abortion clinics and doctors.”
― Peter Bergen
“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.”
― Peter L. Berger
“I’m Irish. That means I’m Catholic. But, truth is, now I’m a retired Christian.”
― Peter O’Toole
“I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.”
― Peter Stuyvesant
“I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.”
― Philip Pullman
“It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.”
― Philip Schaff
“The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.”
― Philip Yancey
“Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.”
― Pope Benedict XVI
“The real ‘action’ in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.”
― Pope Benedict XVI
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.”
― Pope Francis
“You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.”
― Pope Francis
“A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.”
― Pope Francis
“Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him.”
― Pope John XXIII
“Christian life means sacrifice.”
― Pope John XXIII
“Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must – moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.”
― Pope Theodoros II
“I’m a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.”
― Portia Simpson-Miller
“I’m a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people’s bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.”
― Portia Simpson-Miller
“I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church’s teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.”
― Princess Margaret
“I was baptized a Baptist, but I’m just Christian, as far as I’m concerned. I could go in any church, doesn’t matter if it’s Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.”
― Queen Latifah
“I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.”
― Quinton Aaron
“If I have to degrade myself or do something that I’m not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I’m just not willing to do it.”
― Quinton Aaron
“We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.”
― Raf Simons
“In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.”
― Raf Simons
“I cannot discriminate on the basis of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian.”
― Rajnath Singh
“It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he’s done with ‘Mr. Robot,’ and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today – very talented individual.”
― Rami Malek
“As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.”
― Rand Paul
“The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.”
― Randall Terry
“America should function as a Christian nation.”
― Randall Terry
“It’s the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.”
― Randall Terry
“So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.”
― Randall Terry
“It’s come to the point where you have people saying it’s our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.”
― 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?”
― Randall Terry
“I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.”
― Randy Alcorn
“Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.”
― Randy Alcorn
“I’ve had some of my best matches with Christian.”
― Randy Orton
“I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.”
― Ravi Zacharias
“I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.”
― Ravi Zacharias
“God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.”
― Reinhard Bonnke
“Power is the essence of the Christian witness.”
― Reinhard Bonnke
“You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.”
― Reza Aslan
“If ever there was a misnomer in the political lexicon, surely ‘values voters’ is the all-time champ. The use of this term to describe the so-called base of the Republicans’ so-called party mainly refers to an extremist, ultra-conservative, strain of so-called Christian conservatives.”
― Richard Belzer
“I’m a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.”
― Richard Dawkins
“I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.”
― Richard Dawkins
“Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.”
― Richard Engel
“I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they’re not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.”
― Richard Gere
“We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That’s what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things.”
― Richard M. Daley
“Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence – by Christian meekness – by lives of temperance and holiness.”
― Richard Mentor Johnson
“My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.”
― Richard Paul Evans
“The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.”
― Richard Platt
“I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here – on this little bit of very unreal estate.”
― Richard Rohr
“I’m not Christian. I didn’t meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a ‘Heavy Metal’ comic.”
― Richard Stanley
“How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!”
― Richard Wagner
“I’m not only a Christian, but I’m a pastor of a church.”
― Richie Furay
“The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.”
― Rob Bell
“You don’t have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It’s really a fascinating mythology.”
― Robert Crumb
“My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.”
― Robert E. Lee
“The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!”
― Robert E. Lee
“No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
“It may be politically incorrect to say, but it is nevertheless true that a terrorist today is exponentially more likely to be a Muslim than a Christian.”
― Robert Jeffress
“Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.”
― Robert Jeffress
“Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his Lord and savior, he is not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormonism is a cult.”
― Robert Jeffress
“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.”
― Robert Rainy
“A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.”
― Robert Rainy
“Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler’s passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.”
― Robert Runcie
“The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.”
― Rocco Buttiglione
“Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called ‘strict constructionists.’ Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.”
― Rodney Stark
“The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.”
― Rodney Stark
“Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.”
― Roger Fry
“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.”
― Roger Moore
“I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.”
― Roger Nash Baldwin
“The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches.”
― Roger Ross Williams
“All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.”
― Roger Sherman
“I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.”
― Ronnie Milsap
“I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.”
― Rory Stewart
“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.”
― Rowan Williams
“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.”
― Rowan Williams
“I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.”
― Rowan Williams
“What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.”
― Rumi
“Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.”
― Rupert Everett
“I’m a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.”
― Ruth Rendell
“I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she’s so smokin’ hot.”
― Ryan Guzman
“You don’t have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.”
― S. Truett Cathy
“We don’t expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.”
― S. Truett Cathy
“When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould
“The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.”
― Saint Augustine
“I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.”
― Saint Ignatius
“I tell people that I’m a Christian, but I don’t think it’s giving an insight into who I am or what I’m about.”
― Sally Phillips
“The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it’s an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.”
― Salman Rushdie
“In ‘Fifty Shades,’ seemingly, Christian has all the power and control – but actually, Anastasia does.”
― Sam Taylor-Johnson
“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
― Samuel Butler
“By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.”
― Samuel Chase
“I’m a Christian, and I’m not judgmental towards anyone. I think that’s really important.”
― Samuel Larsen
“You wouldn’t expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.”
― Samuel Larsen
“All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson’s influence.”
― Sandra Cisneros
“One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.”
― Sandra Cisneros
“I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.”
― Sandy Adams
“I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn’t room for what I wanted to write.”
― Sara Zarr
“I’m always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.”
― Sara Zarr
“There’s not a Christian out there who hasn’t struggled with wanting to break a rule or having broken a rule over and over again.”
― Sarah Drew
“Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.”
― Sargent Shriver
“When I was hired to write and direct a movie, my Christian duty suddenly became quite clear: My primary duty as a Christian in Hollywood is to do my job well.”
― Scott Derrickson
“I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.”
― Scott Stapp
“Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds.”
― Sergei Lavrov
“I’ve never been a Sunday-only kind of Christian.”
― Sharron Angle
“There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“You could be a woman in Alabama who’s a conservative Christian, or you could be a total crunchy-granola woman in Seattle and 20 years old, and both of you would watch Oprah.”
― Shonda Rhimes
“In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.”
― Simon Greenleaf
“St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn’t.”
― Simon Schama
“I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.”
― Simone Weil
“I love Christian Louboutin, but I can’t walk in them yet.”
― Sofia Richie
“No American – Christian or otherwise – should have to choose between their careers and their faith.”
― Sonny Perdue
“We’re not a typical Christian band. We’ve got dreadlocks and tattoos.”
― Sonny Sandoval
“We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and the stuff that we were into and the struggles and everything we were going through. Once people found out we were Christian, it was always, ‘Is that Christian music?’”
― Sonny Sandoval
“I’m a born-again Christian – if everybody can agree what that means. I believe in Jesus. I believe that He died for my sins.”
― Sonny Sandoval
“I became a Christian when I was 19, and it wasn’t like I was raised with the church.”
― Sonny Sandoval
“Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don’t need them.”
― Sonny Sandoval
“We never claimed to be a Christian band; we just were outspoken about our faith. It’s not like we knew there was a scene.”
― Sonny Sandoval
“When we first started, I didn’t know there was Christian rock or Christian music. I just thought we were a rock band that stuck to our convictions… Like every other hardcore band out there sang or screamed what they thought, we did the same thing.”
― Sonny Sandoval
“As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis – a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.”
― Stacie Orrico
“To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don’t become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.”
― Stanley Hauerwas
“I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult.”
― Stanley Hauerwas
“Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world’s violence.”
― Stanley Hauerwas
“Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of a people separated from the world so that we can be united in spite of – or perhaps better, because of – the world’s fragmentation and divisions.”
― Stanley Hauerwas
“Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone’s enemies – sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.”
― Stanley Hauerwas
“It is ironic that so many politicians claim to defend traditional Christian values of ‘faith and family.’ In fact, a radical antifamily ideology permeates Christ’s teaching, and the early Christian tradition often set faith and family against each other.”
― Stephanie Coontz
“I’m a Jewish born-again Christian.”
― Stephen Baldwin
“I’m a Christian first. I’m a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it’s third, fourth, or fifth down the line.”
― Steve Alford
“I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.”
― Steve Blake
“It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.”
― Steve Earle
“Christian abolitionists gave their lives by the hundreds of thousands to end slavery.”
― Steve King
“Even though ripping on those of the Christian cloth is nothing new, edgy, or thought provoking, Hollywood feels the need to do it with each of their religiously overtoned talkies.”
― Steven Crowder
“Preaching Christian salvation is to preach moral absolutes. Hollywood no likey.”
― Steven Crowder
“What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.”
― Susan B. Anthony
“If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it’s not a duty; it’s a kind of joy.”
― Susan Howatch
“There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.”
― Susie Bright
“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.”
― T Bone Burnett
“Forgiveness is a big part of – especially post-civil rights movement – is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn’t raised within the Christian church; I wasn’t raised within any church.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates
“You don’t have to be dowdy to be a Christian.”
― Tammy Faye Bakker
“It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.”
― Tariq Ali
“I’m pretty well grounded in Christian principles.”
― Ted Yoho
“I am a Christian guy. I’ve struggled with that; I have struggled with everything.”
― Terry Bradshaw
“That’s one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.”
― Terry Bradshaw
“Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.”
― Terry Pratchett
“Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.”
― Thomas Keneally
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
― Thomas Paine
“We had a rule-breaker at Mainz – the club manager Christian Heidel, who had the courage to make me a Bundesliga coach.”
― Thomas Tuchel
“I’m a Christian, and I give the glory to God.”
― Tim Kennedy
“If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.”
― Tim Ryan
“I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.”
― Timothy Radcliffe
“I’m a walking contradiction on so many levels. I’m gay, black, and a Christian.”
― Tituss Burgess
“I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.”
― Tom Robbins
“In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.”
― Tony Campolo
“There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.”
― Tony Campolo
“Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.”
― Tony Campolo
“I don’t know if it’s embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.”
― Tony Oller
“I’m a born-again Christian, but that’s not the coat that I wear. It’s just how my heart’s been changed.”
― Tony Vincent
“I grew up in a very Christian household. We went to church every Sunday whether I wanted to or not.”
― Tracy Lawrence
“I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.”
― Trent Franks
“Even if you’re not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.”
― Trey Parker
“The industry is starting to be more open to what we do. I just don’t want us to be boxed in whatever people assume Christian rap should be. We’re dudes who love hip hop, and we love Jesus, and that’s going to be apparent in our music.”
― Trip Lee
“It would be really dangerous for us to assume that Christian hip-hop’s popularity equals racial unity.”
― Trip Lee
“I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.”
― Troy Perry
“I don’t feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.”
― Troy Polamalu
“My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.”
― Troy Polamalu
“I’m Christian. I’ve made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.”
― Tucker Carlson
“Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there’s no reason to revisit step one.”
― Tullian Tchividjian
“When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel – and we, ironically, become more disobedient.”
― Tullian Tchividjian
“We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.”
― Umberto Eco
“The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.”
― Vance Packard
“I’m a Christian, but I don’t believe in religion or anything like that.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.”
― Victoria Jackson
“I’ve had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn’t a Christian.”
― Victoria Jackson
“It doesn’t make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.”
― Victoria Jackson
“Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.”
― Viktor Orban
“What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?”
― Viktor Orban
“Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.”
― Viktor Orban
“We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they’ll have to redefine who he is.”
― Vincent Bugliosi
“We’ll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.”
― Vladimir Zhirinovsky
“No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.”
― W. Somerset Maugham
“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.”
― Walter Martin
“I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.”
― Wes Craven
“Leonardo DiCaprio I find very inspiring… He’s my idol. I absolutely love Leonardo DiCaprio. Christian Bale, obviously, being a British actor and going from ‘Empire of the Sun.’ Now he’s Batman.”
― Will Poulter
“The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.”
― William Gurnall
“The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.”
― William Gurnall
“No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.”
― William Inge
“When I was a kid, they made us write these essays about what Heaven would be like. I went to this Christian school in Texas, and the thing that I wrote was no bees. No bees. No mud. No infirmities.”
― William Jackson Harper
“Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.”
― William Law
“To be like Christ is to be a Christian.”
― William Penn
“Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. But just being told you’re anything when you’re not.”
― Winston Marshall
“We’re not all Christian, so we can’t be a Christian band.”
― Winston Marshall
“My parents were Christian.”
― Wyclef Jean
“The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance.”
― Yemi Osinbajo
“My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin – I don’t have a favorite shoe store per se.”
― Yuan Yuan Tan
“I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.”
― Zack Snyder
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