Famous Quotes & Sayings

Queen Victoria

There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.

Queen Elizabeth II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

Queen Elizabeth II

For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.

Queen Latifah

I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

Queen Latifah

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

Pippa Middleton

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

Terence McKenna

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

Ted Koppel

Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judeo-Christian on one side and the Islamic world on the other. That's exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we start with thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it.

Randall Terry

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

Randall Terry

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Randall Terry

Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.

Randall Terry

You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.

Randall Terry

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good - Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty. We are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.

Randall Terry

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

Randall Terry

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

Randall Terry

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

Randall Terry

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

Randall Terry

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Randall Terry

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

Randall Terry

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

Randall Terry

America should function as a Christian nation.

Randall Terry

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Sean Lennon

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

Sean Hannity

I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

Sean O'Casey

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

Leonard Maltin

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

Leonard Maltin

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.