Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

M. F. K. Fisher

It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

M. Russell Ballard

What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over time this would have a transformative effect upon all of our Heavenly Father's children through the extension of His love to them through us.

Malcolm Bradbury

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Mahathir Mohamad

Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.

Mahathir Mohamad

I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose! ... These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion!

Mahalia Jackson

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are against bloodshed, regardless of whether a crime was committed against a Muslim or against a Christian or a Jew. But the question is: Why among these 60 million victims are only the Jews the center of attention?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.

Mahatma Gandhi

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Mahatma Gandhi

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

Mahatma Gandhi

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Mahatma Gandhi

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Mahatma Gandhi

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

Mahatma Gandhi

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Mahatma Gandhi

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

Freya Stark

Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

Freya Stark

Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

Freya Stark

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Fred Thompson

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

Frank McCourt

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Maggie Gallagher

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Maggie Stiefvater

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Joel C. Rosenberg

The question shouldn't be “Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is “Why aren't all the Christians here?

Joe Lhota

I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.