Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Adam Hamilton

As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

Adam Hamilton

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

Adam Hamilton

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

Adam Ant

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

Abraham Kuyper

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

Abraham Kuyper

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

Abraham Kuyper

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

Abraham Lincoln

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Abraham Lincoln

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

Blake Lively

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

B. C. Forbes

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Christy Romano

But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not.

Catherine Hicks

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I know for myself how the fruits of the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform lives from the ordinary and dreary to the extraordinary and sublime.

Dylan Lauren

I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide.

Patricia Heaton

I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

Paul Pierce

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

Tony Campolo

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

Tinashe

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

I thought that we did very well. Some of the team were competing a full optional program for the first time. Chris Moore really worked hard and was rewarded for it. It will be a test (today).

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

I think any time you take a position like here at Florida, there's pressure on you. There's pressure on me, there's pressure on (quarterback) Chris (Leak). There's pressure on all of us. We have to produce.

Ann Voskamp

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.