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Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.
Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.
Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
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.
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.
Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?
The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.
God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.
Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.
A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.
If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!
Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
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.
We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).
The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.
I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.
Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.
You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.
In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.