Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

Bertrand Russell

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

Bertrand Russell

It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

Bertrand Russell

Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.

Bertrand Russell

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

Bertrand Russell

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

Charles R. Swindoll

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

Charles R. Swindoll

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

Charles R. Swindoll

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

Charles R. Swindoll

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.

Charles R. Swindoll

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

Charles R. Swindoll

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

I think they were hungry because the loss at the Christmas tournament. Now it plays out that February 10th is a showdown with that game meaning something.

Jeffrey Pierce

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

Jose Lopez

It is kind of like Christmas in August.

I went from having a terrible Christmas ? going through a divorce ? to having a really nice Christmas. I really had the guts to do something I've never done.

Michelle Huneven

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

Harry Redknapp

I won't even eat my Christmas dinner. I'm going to be the most miserable person you've ever seen.

I think Christmas will be a very exciting time. The stars are in alignment.

It doesn't seem like we have the drive we had before the Christmas holiday.

Jerome Bettis

It'd be nice but it's not necessary. I started in so many, that's not critical. It wasn't on my Christmas list.

Pavel Datsyuk

I thought it was a Christmas present from Santa, a Russian Santa.

Aidan Quinn

It is Daniel trying to think 'WWCD' -- what would Christ do. What would Christ say?

I have been waiting for Sean to come back every week, it is like putting Christmas back.

I didn't want Easter to just come and go. I wanted people to think about the last days of Christ leading up to Sunday.

Caterina Murino

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

Hall is a good Christian boy, never any trouble, ... I've known the whole family for years. I'm shocked, completely shocked. I just don't know what's going to happen. These are good people.

Tony McCoy

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

I was like a kid on Christmas morning.

Mark Twain

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian

Bruce Golding

If Christmas is to mean anything, it must reinforce in us our duty to each other.