Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Terry Eagleton

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

Terry Eagleton

Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love.

Terry Eagleton

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

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.

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.

Lee Kuan Yew

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.

... there is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.

The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

Most Christians are more than content to live out their lives surrounded by the trappings of our world, rather than to risk losing them in becoming a radical Christian. A radical Christian (by my definition) is one who will put God first in all decisions, even when putting God first is costly. In the business world, this means putting God first even when doing so costs money. That is true freedom - spiritual freedom - as opposed to business bondage.