Quotes about christ
christian character independent
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency George Washington
christian feet earth
The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than to live on his knees.
christian religious spring
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [NOT our!] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
christian religious 4th-of-july
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
christian gun self
One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.
christian character soldier
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
christian believe agency
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.
christian training youth
The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
christian jesus ideas
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. George Santayana
christian country stranger
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
christmas cutting should
Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas. George Osborne
christian odds heritage
Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work. George McGovern
christian political advertising
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. George Orwell
christian connections glory
There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing. George Muller
christian grace connections
Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation works are altogether excluded; yet that so far as the rewards of grace are concerned, in the world to come, there is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.
christian running prayer
It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.
christian tomorrow-may-never-come giving
The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.
christian order christian-inspirational
God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.
christian prayer lying
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
christian boys atheism
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable. George Meredith
christian jesus heart
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old. Fyodor Dostoevsky
christian religious lying
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Friedrich Nietzsche
christian faces looks
Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
christian drug treasure
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
christian religious pride
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian...
christian philosophical christ-on-the-cross
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
christian today christianity
What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
christian friday atheist
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
christian thinking religion
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
christian pride sacrifice
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.
christian air church
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
christian letting-go men
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them. John Ruskin
christian dream should-have
I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. John Proctor