Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

Hassan Nasrallah

Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.

James E. Faust

We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

James Blunt

No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

Isaac Hanson

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Isaac Hanson

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Isaac Asimov

The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that -- No, No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, much less its origins.

Elton John

I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion.

Ella Baker

My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.

Irving Berlin

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

Irving Berlin

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.

Irving Berlin

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

Irving Kristol

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Irving Kristol

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

Because everyone is expecting a weak Christmas, the market is in for a surprise because I don't think American consumers are going to cut back on spending.

By Christmas we should have an exhibition hall outside so that they can continue to work with the electrical and everything else on the inside,

Neale Donald Walsch

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

Neale Donald Walsch

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

Mila Kunis

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

Mickey Edwards

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

Joseph Addison

I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.

Joseph Addison

Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

Joseph Addison

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Joseph Addison

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Joseph Addison

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.

Jose Mourinho

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

Jorge Luis Borges

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be bold to call ourselves Christians and bear the stamp of his character and reputation. When people find out the you are a Christian, they should already have an idea of who you are and what you are like simply because you bear such a precious name.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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.