Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Jones

For most of them, Christmas is not a good day. For some of them, Christmas is the worst day, because they're not with their family.

For most of the 20th century, the secular perspective moved forward and was in the ascendancy. Recently however, conservative Christians have been on the offensive, recovering some of that lost ground.

Given the plethora of new and improved products that we should see this Christmas ... if there was a year to have a delay, this is it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.

I go back to when the Constitution was written by our founding fathers. We profess as a nation to be a Christian nation. Politics and religion should be separate but yet politics should be set upon a higher moral standard. The highest moral standard that we have as a nation is the Holy Bible.

Hopefully, these pictures and the great words from people who really have a love for Jesus will strengthen thousands of Christians in their faith.

Jack Rio

Hopefully, the people back in Jacksonville are pretty happy about that Christmas present we just gave them.

William Wilberforce

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

William Wilberforce

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

William Wilberforce

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

William Wilberforce

If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go

Albert Barnes

In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.

Anton LaVey

I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!

Anton LaVey

The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins' as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

Anton LaVey

Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.

Anton LaVey

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

Anton LaVey

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Matisyahu

The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.

He was loading Christmas trees. It struck me how college and football is so different from grinding it out in the real world. He had stayed in touch, and I knew that he had qualified. I was proud of him. I could tell by his voice that he was excited. He said, 'Coach, I can't wait to get started.' He had missed football.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

I worked very hard, so I am happy. There was no Christmas, no Happy New Year for me this year. Just fishing. I was here.

I worked very hard and it paid off. No Christmas, no New Year, just fishing. This feels better than angler of the year, because I wanted to prove to others and myself that I could win.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I grew up here and you've got to do it. You look forward to this more than Christmas.

If they keep the pace they're going at right now and if Christy (Stone) gets stronger, they might be able to do it. Last year we had to start over from scratch, which was frustrating a times. But they grew better as the season went on.

If this is confirmed, it will reinforce our suspicion that the December performance was inflated by many consumers opening their wallets to treat their families and themselves at Christmas having held back their spending over much of 2005.

I have had a big problem with my back since Christmas. Doctors gave me some infusions but it did not help me a lot. I started with special exercises but doctors do not recommend a long flight.

Adoniram Judson

If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.

Philip Pullman

If the Disney Corp. wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it.

David Thornton

He tried to grab them and I said, 'No, you can't. They're all full of mud and you can't take them because they're ruined, ... I told him, 'You can always get another. Christmas is coming up.'