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Christian Quotes


"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."


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


"Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them."


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


"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."


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


"Christianity is part of the common law."


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


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


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


"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!"


"Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved."


"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it."


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


"It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope."


"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."


"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."


"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation."


"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."


"It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know."


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


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


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


"The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity."


"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."


"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."


"Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world."


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


"If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher."


"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."


"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."
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