Quotes About Christian

O wisdom of the world! and strength of the world! what are you when matched beside the foolishness and the weakness of the Christian? You are great in resources, manifold in methods, hopeful in prospects; but one thing you have not—and that is peace.

Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer.

Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. John Jay First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

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.

Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith.

It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.

Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.

Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

According to Dionysius, the Divine Darkness appears dark only because it is so dazzlingly bright-- a paradox I have attempted to understand by looking directly at the sun and noticing the dark spot that flowers at its center. But as compelling as this paradox, or this experiment, may be, I am not as interested in it as I am the fact that in Christian iconography, this "dazzling darkness" appears with startling regularity as blue.

Es ist nicht gut, von ›Gesetzlichkeit‹ zu reden, wo es um die Ordnung unsers christlichen Lebens, um die Treue in den gebotenen Dingen des Schriftlesens und Betens geht. Unordnung zersetzt und zerbricht den Glauben.

Æthelberht had a Christian queen and a renovated Roman city as his capital.

And there hath not been any one more effectual means of bringing unholiness, with an ungodly course of conversation, into the Christian world, than this one of teaching men to satisfy themselves in this duty by their saying, reading, or repetition of the words of other men, which, it may be, they understand not, and certainly are not in a due manner affected withal; for it is this duty whereby our whole course is principally influenced.