Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. I. Packer

The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

J. I. Packer

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

J. I. Packer

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

J. I. Packer

The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.

Israel Zangwill

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Israel Zangwill

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Isabelle Adjani

The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why.

Isabelle Fuhrman

Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.

Ioan Gruffudd

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

Jack Kemp

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

Eduardo Ermita

It is a tradition during the Christmas and New Year holidays and we found it necessary because of the inner feelings of our people,

Steve Harmison

Jesus Christ would be quite interesting, but Bart Simpson would be brilliant.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

Aidan Quinn

It is Daniel trying to think 'WWCD' -- what would Christ do. What would Christ say?

Bede Griffiths

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

B. B. King

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...

Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Bill Shorten

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

Bill Cowher

It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

Bill Cosby

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

C. S. Lewis

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

C. S. Lewis

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

C. S. Lewis

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

C. S. Lewis

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

C. S. Lewis

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Berkeley Breathed

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...

Bertrand Russell

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

I wasn't expecting a Christmas card, but maybe a phone call.

Michelle Huneven

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

I think Christmas will be a very exciting time. The stars are in alignment.

We do not doubt Miss Miers' faith in Christ ù we share it, ... We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.

John Foxe

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.