Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Graffin

Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

Glenn Greenwald

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

Gregg Easterbrook

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

Joey Galloway

I don't know if they respect us, but hopefully by the end of the game they will.

Stanley Hauerwas

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.

I'm happy with how the kids played in the playoff game. That's important. We've got to go on the road and play Westside Christian now. That's a tough place to play. We need to get a win there. If we do that, we play well and play well enough to get a win, so be it. It will be good for our program. It will be good for our kids. We've got young kids. I'm proud of the way they're playing.

I picked Huntington because they are a Christian college and they fit my needs. The have a great program, with great guys and a great coaching staff. I really felt like I fit in there.

Cloud Ten has really become expert at targeting the Christian community,

Christian Williams will probably be on the ones at Sandown now - and he is an able deputy.

Robert Jeffress

Christians will not be here to experience the great tribulation under the Antichrist.

Roy Moore

Christians in our country no longer understand the relevance of acknowledging God anymore.

Stanley Hauerwas

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Christian Guzman is the shortstop here. The way he plays here in spring training determines whether we make the switch from him to Royce Clayton or someone else to open the season.

Christian could be playing white feedback manipulation and stuff, and I could be outside playing music for airports. How you express yourself isn't important. What's important is that you're honest.

John Piper

The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

John Piper

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

John Piper

Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

John Piper

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

John Piper

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

John Piper

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

John Piper

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

John Piper

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

John Piper

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

John Piper

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

John Piper

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

John Newton

The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.

John Newton

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

John Newton

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

John Newton

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

John Newton

I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

John Newton

I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.

John Newton

The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ.

John Wesley

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.