Quotes About Christianity

Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad," writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than among Christians on a Sunday morning.

let's get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less "lies." It's the world we Christians inhabit as "people of the Book." We are story people. All

For her, the conflict was a theological problem, a serious error on the part of her fellow Christians. "There is a new and troublesome fear of the imagination - though without it, how can anyone believe in the Incarnation, the Power that created all of the galaxies willingly limiting itself to be one of us for love for us! And this fear is expressing itself in a new kind of book burning and witch-hunting.

All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it's the real fairy tale that crashed into the time line of history... 'The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact,' Lewis wrote

There's nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the Christian life.

Enter Madeleine. Here was a Christian author who could function quite unperturbedly from inside paradox, who dared to question the assumption that all things must be either/or. Why can't it be both/and? What is this nonsense about "secular"? Why can't God use those things if God wants to? Why can't God speak through this or that person (if God can speak through a donkey, for instance)? Who says?

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Walking on Water

You traitor! We took you out of darkest Africa, got you civilized, gave you the word of our Redeemer Jesus Christ, and this is the thanks?

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.

God has chosen, through his son Jesus Christ, this time, this place for all Christians - Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox - to save our country and save our courts.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.