Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

Miroslav Volf

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

R. C. Sproul

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

R. C. Sproul

It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

R. C. Sproul

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

R. C. Sproul

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

Preston Manning

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

P. J. O'Rourke

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

Ken Follett

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

Olivia Williams

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Mara Liasson

There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.

Mats Sundin

At times, we kind of dipped (team conditioning) after Christmas, so this should help us as players so that we don't have to struggle with something like that in the future.

Arlo Guthrie

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Barbara Deming

Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.

Martin Buber

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.

Pope John Paul II

I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit of this Congress results in the establishment of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in all parishes and Christian communities throughout the world

Pope John Paul II

Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.

Pope John Paul II

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.

Pope Francis

We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

Pope Francis

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Pope Francis

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Pope Francis

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

Pope Francis

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

Pope Francis

Mary joins us, she fights at our side. She supports Christians in the fight against the forces of evil. Especially through prayer, through the rosary. Hear me out, the rosary... Do you pray the Rosary each day?

Pope Francis

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

Pope Francis

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

Pope Francis

Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

Pope Francis

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

Pope Francis

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

Pope Francis

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

Pope Francis

Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian

Pope Francis

The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.