Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

William Wilberforce

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

William Wilberforce

No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

Ignatius of Antioch

Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

Ignatius of Antioch

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Ignatius of Antioch

You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

John Piper

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Lord Jesus Christ is our partner, helper and advocate.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins.

with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.

Bryan Sykes

There are several interesting questions such as was there one original 'father' Christmas or were there several different ones?

The 'Radio City Christmas Spectacular' will go on as scheduled.

The quiet Christmas Eve seems to suggest that consumers treated Saturday and Sunday as their rest days and that the savvy shopper is now back out shopping with a vengeance.

The question last Christmas was, if you put up a Web site will people come? And sure enough they came. ... Now we're in a post-revolutionary environment. Retailers in cyberspace are going to work very hard to differentiate themselves.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Drake Bell

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people on the planet.

Ronald Reagan

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Robert H. Schuller

I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.

Bruce Wilkinson

When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

T. D. Jakes

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

Henry B. Eyring

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

Henry B. Eyring

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

Francine Rivers

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

Adam Green

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

Gina Rodriguez

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

We knew we had this game coming up so as soon as this last game was done we got back in the weight room and tried to run. I think I had about five meals on Christmas Day, but you just got to work a little extra harder and try lose the weight after.

We left off playing pretty good, so I wasn't excited about the (Christmas) break. But we've had a couple of good days of practice this week.

We're trying to teach Kentucky youth that being an on-mission Christian is a lifestyle, not a location. So if they're venturing out of the state of Kentucky in such a great time of need from the Gulf Coast, I think that is just awesome.

Ellen G. White

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.