Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christians are commanded to pray in the name of Jesus. It is not a practice reserved just for personal prayers, or prayers rendered in church.

Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.

A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.

People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however, as Christ followers, our votes should reflect our God.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father.

Charles Spurgeon

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

C. S. Lewis

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

Billy Graham

The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.

Billy Graham

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Padgett Powell

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Padgett Powell

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

Bill Vaughan

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Margot Kidder

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.

Patricia Heaton

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

Linda Evangelista

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

We have the hope that it will be before Christmas.

We were glad we got this deployment order after Christmas and got the opportunity to stay home with our families.

Time does not ease the pain. I feel that if she had been taken through natural causes, it would have been a terrible thing, but it would have been acceptable. Doing something like that, and at Christmas, is unacceptable.

Troy Christian really gave us a good match. There was a lot of pressure on Pat to deliver, and, to his credit, he stayed focused. I'm so proud of all these kids and our coaches.

You know, hearing that coming out of other people's mouths who have been up there, like Christy Martin, she's definitely proved a lot in boxing, it means a lot.

We never gave up. Four, five, six quarters, whatever it takes to get in the playoffs. Yeah, we could have tanked and been home by the Christmas tree, but these guys weren't about to do that.

You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor.

Henry Fonda

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

Unless you ask, Chris isn?t going to talk about it.

I wasn't expecting a Christmas card, but maybe a phone call.

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

Most Christians in the community prefer to shop at their Christian bookstore.

Me, personally, I don't know exactly what Christmas feels like.

Why would someone on Christmas night come into your yard and want to thoroughly destroy Christmas for a family, I don't understand that.

John Ortberg

'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.