Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meyer

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Joyce Meyer

Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!

Joyce Meyer

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

Joyce Meyer

You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go.

Joyce Meyer

There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Joyce Meyer

If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.

Joyce Meyer

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Joyce Meyer

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Joyce Meyer

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?

Joyce Meyer

New level, New devil.

Joyce Meyer

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

Joyce Meyer

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

Joyce Meyer

If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks.

Joyce Meyer

God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!

Paul Tournier

Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting the inward truth about oneself, confessing one's anxiety, and still to believe, that is to say that the Christian puts his trust not in his own strength, but in the grace of God.

Paul Tournier

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

Paul Kantner

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

Paul Kantner

I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

Paul Kurtz

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Patrick Stewart

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

Maggie Gallagher

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Maggie Stiefvater

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Gustav Mahler

That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.