Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tullian Tchividjian

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

Tullian Tchividjian

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

Tullian Tchividjian

Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

Tullian Tchividjian

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

Tullian Tchividjian

Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.

Trevor Phillips

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

Trey Parker

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

Trey Parker

Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.

Trey Parker

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

Tori Amos

I really really love Christ, but I'm not a Christian.

Tori Amos

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over....

Tori Amos

This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?

Vera Farmiga

I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.

Vera Farmiga

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

Vance Packard

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Vance Havner

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

Vance Havner

Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

Vance Havner

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

Vance Havner

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

Vance Havner

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

Vance Havner

I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

Vance Havner

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

Vance Havner

No life is great that does not point to Christ.

Vance Havner

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

Vance Havner

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

Vance Havner

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

Vance Havner

Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.

Vance Havner

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

Vance Havner

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

Vance Havner

Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.

Vance Havner

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

Vance Havner

A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.