Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

Charles R. Swindoll

God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.

Charles R. Swindoll

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

Charles R. Swindoll

Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.

Charles R. Swindoll

That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction . . . or in pursuit of a precise goal.

Charles R. Swindoll

In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.

Charles R. Swindoll

Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

Charles R. Swindoll

When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.

Charles R. Swindoll

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's timing is always on time.

Charles R. Swindoll

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

Charles R. Swindoll

If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

Bertrand Russell

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

Bertrand Russell

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

Bertrand Russell

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Bertrand Russell

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

Benjamin Disraeli

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Benjamin Disraeli

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

Ben Fountain

Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.

C. S. Lewis

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

C. S. Lewis

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

C. S. Lewis

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

C. S. Lewis

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

C. S. Lewis

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

C. S. Lewis

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

C. S. Lewis

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

C. S. Lewis

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

C. S. Lewis

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

C. S. Lewis

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

C. S. Lewis

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.