During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians. Author: Al Sharpton |
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. Author: Albert Camus |
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities. Author: Alcee Hastings |
I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof. Author: Allan Carr |
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened. Author: Amy Grant |
There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed. Author: Andy Dick |
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. Author: Angelina Grimke |
I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. Author: Anne Rice |
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. Author: Anne Rice |
Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Author: Anton Rubinstein |
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. Author: Arthur Keith |
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous. Author: Benny Hinn |
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. Author: Beverly Sills |
This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ. Author: Bill McCartney |
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Author: C. S. Lewis |
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. Author: Carol P. Christ |
I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet. Author: Charles Bradlaugh |
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. Author: Charles Colson |
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults. Author: Clayton Christensen |
I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus. Author: Cliff Richard |
It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have. Author: Cliff Richard |
The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it. Author: Cliff Richard |
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. Author: Cyril Connolly |
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well. Author: Dalton Trumbo |
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Author: Daniel Webster |
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. Author: David Hume |
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. Author: David Wilkerson |
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. Author: Denis Diderot |
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel. Author: Ed Markey |
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter. Author: Edvard Munch |
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. Author: Gary North |
If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that. Author: George Carey |
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. Author: George Whitefield |
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil? Author: Glenn Danzig |
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick |
Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine. Author: Hassan Nasrallah |
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state. Author: Hassan Nasrallah |
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. Author: Herb Caen |
With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others. Author: Iain Duncan Smith |
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan. Author: Jack Schwartz |
I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go? Author: Jane Elliot |
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. Author: Jerry Falwell Topics: Politics |
The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. Author: Jimmy Swaggart |
There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists. Author: Joe Slovo |
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. Author: Johann Most |
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. Author: John Clayton |
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. Author: John Clayton |
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus. Author: John Clayton |
There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for. Author: John Clayton |
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory. Author: John Foxe |
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head. Author: John Nelson Darby |
This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages. Author: John Strachan |
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians. Author: Joseph Lancaster |
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place. Author: Joseph Ratzinger |
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. Author: Josh McDowell |
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. Author: Julien Green |
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. Author: Karl Barth |
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church. Author: Karl Lehmann |
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith. Author: Kenneth Scott Latourette |
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. Author: Kenneth Scott Latourette |
The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians. Author: Kenneth Scott Latourette |
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music. Author: Larry Norman |
The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Author: Lionel Blue Topics: Christianity |
The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs. Author: Lionel Blue |
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. Author: Luke Ford |
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith. Author: Lynn Swann |
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. Author: Malcolm Bradbury |
But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ. Author: Marvin Olasky |
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong. Author: Marvin Olasky |
I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell. Author: Matthew Fox |
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant. Author: Michael Novak |
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. Author: Michael Novak |
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. Author: Michel de Montaigne |
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Author: Mohandas Gandhi |
And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that. Author: Neale Donald Walsch |
Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population! Author: Neale Donald Walsch |
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. Author: P. J. O'Rourke |
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset. Author: Pat Robertson |
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians. Author: Pat Robertson |
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. Author: Pat Robertson |
I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians. Author: Paul Kantner |
Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States. Author: Paul Weyrich |
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place. Author: Pope Benedict XVI |
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. Author: Ralph Abernathy |
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. Author: Randall Terry |
If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it. Author: Randall Terry |
It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there? Author: Randall Terry |
The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink. Author: Reggie White |
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. Author: Robert Rainy |
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons. Author: Robert Rainy |
The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians. Author: Robert Shea |
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. Author: Rowan D. Williams |
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity. Author: Rowan D. Williams |
This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians. Author: Sally Quinn |
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. Author: Samuel Chase |
Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men. Author: Sargent Shriver |
You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people. Author: Stephen Baldwin |
I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox. Author: Sun Myung Moon |
A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians. Author: Susan Estrich |