Quotes about christian
christian life-and-death tension
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life. Brennan Manning
christian self hatred
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
christian jesus taken
The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.
christian humility thinking
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
christian men blood
Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.
christian jesus lying
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
christian ice-cream self
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
christian community coward
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
christian depth persons
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
christian jesus acknowledge-him
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
christian thinking breathing
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono
christian emergencies conservative
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
christian jesus doe
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
christian powerful years
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
christian color white
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles. Barry Goldwater
christian thinking atheism
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
christian drinking weekend
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian. Artie Lange
christian fighting toby
I want to see Toby Maguire fight Christian Bale.
christian horse struggle
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun! Arthur Schopenhauer
christian taken views
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded. Antonin Scalia
christian order essentials
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
christian scary melting
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
christian wise views
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
christian exercise progress
Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end. Brother Lawrence
christian heart giving
What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.
christian thinking forget
Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.
christianity conversations-with-god lifestyle
There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
christian school church
I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith. Brittany Murphy
christian men style
A Christian is the highest style of man. Edward Young
christian healing voice
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. Edmund Burke
christian ambition rainbow
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
christian character healing
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.
christian humility foundation
True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.