Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Barclay

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

William Barclay

One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Wilferd Peterson

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

Washington Irving

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

Walter Martin

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

Voltaire

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Voltaire

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Voltaire

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

Voltaire

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

Voltaire

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

Voltaire

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

William Empson

Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

William Butler Yeats

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Rick Warren

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

Rick Warren

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Rick Warren

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

Rick Warren

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

Rick Warren

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

Rick Warren

We are all called to fulfill God's five purposed for our lives: to worship, to fellowship, to grow like Christ, to serve, and to be on mission with God in the world.

Rick Warren

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

Rick Warren

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

Rick Warren

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

Rick Warren

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

Rick Warren

Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.

Rick Warren

If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, "Why me?" Instead ask, "What do you want me to learn?" Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.

Rick Warren

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

Rick Warren

Your spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever.

Rick Warren

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

Rick Warren

Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on Earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, old age, and, inevitably, by death.

Rick Warren

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.