Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

Alexander Hamilton

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

Alexander MacLaren

The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

Alexander MacLaren

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

Alexander MacLaren

The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.

Alexander MacLaren

He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.

Alexander MacLaren

The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.

Alexander MacLaren

Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.

Alexander MacLaren

Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"

Alexander Pope

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

Alexander Pope

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

Deborah Davis

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

E. Stanley Jones

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

E. Stanley Jones

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

E. Stanley Jones

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

E. Stanley Jones

Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

E. Stanley Jones

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

E. Stanley Jones

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

E. Stanley Jones

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

E. Stanley Jones

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

E. Stanley Jones

The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”

E. O. Wilson

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

E. M. Forster

[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.

E. M. Forster

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

Drew Carey

The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours.

Doug Davidson

When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.

Dorothy Richardson

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

Donald Wildmon

Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.

Donald Wildmon

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

Don McLean

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Doug Phillips

Something is mighty wrong with our priorities when professing Christian men joke about their wives, joke about their children, and joke about God, but fight to the death over their favorite sports team.

Doug Stanhope

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

Dwight L. Moody

If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts....Love is irresistible.