Quotes About Christian

Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

At the end of the Middle Ages, slavery was almost unknown in Christian Europe. During the early modern period, the rise of European capitalism went hand in hand with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.

Death is the ultimate storm. The survival of one's life experience, one's "house," is a pressing issue for all men, whether regenerate or not. The soul that must pass into eternity without Christ leaves behind a wreckage that is pitiful indeed. But so may a real Christian leave behind such wreckage. A life not lived on the firm foundation of divine truth invites disaster, no matter who lives it.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.

As The Guardian put it, Sekulow came up with a plan, at the height of the recession, that pushed "poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60 million to Sekulow, his family and their businesses." The money has gone to companies controlled by his wife, sons, brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew.

I'm not sure Trump himself is one of these fundamentalist Christians. He just worships himself.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

WINE and Fermented grape-juice known to the Womens Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is Gods next best gift to man.

Unbelief is an evil thing; nothing puts so great a price on precious Christ as faith does. It is certain that unbelief keeps love at a very low exercise; likewise, unbelief hinders the grace of mortification. I can hardly believe that a Christian under the practice of unbelief can attain the mortification of any lust because he cannot take hold of Him in whose strength only will lusts be mortified.

American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after the end of the Civil War.

I ended up as much a Maoist failure as I had been a Christian failure. Souls were still unsaved, and the imperialist bourgeoisie was still in power. Before I graduated from high school, I had lost my faith in the fundamentalist God I had been trained to worship and serve.

In the minds of many Texans, the principle attraction of the Klan was its defense of Christian morality. The Klan presented itself as a contender for the historic Christian faith, a defender of Christian civilization, and an advocate for the good Christian people of the South and the country.

We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance, while encouraging the faithful to endure to the end.

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.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

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.

The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.