Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Hicks

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I know for myself how the fruits of the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform lives from the ordinary and dreary to the extraordinary and sublime.

Dylan Lauren

I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide.

Patricia Heaton

I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

Paul Pierce

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

We are confident this is a piece of genuine, Christian apocryphal literature. This is the most significant discovery in the last 60 years.

We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

Blake Lively

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

B. C. Forbes

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

We are a church that is deadly serious about serving Christ and living out the Scriptures, and we invite people who want to live their faith in a thoughtful and non-legalistic manner to join us.

Tim Tebow

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Willie Aames

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.

Willie Aames

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Webb Simpson

I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

Billy Graham

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

Billy Graham

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.

Ezra Taft Benson

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

Ellen G. White

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

Ellen G. White

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

Ellen G. White

The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.

Ellen G. White

Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.

David A. Bednar

Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day.

Adrian Rogers

The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.