All Quotes

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
‐‐ Rodney Stark

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
‐‐ Charles L. Allen

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
‐‐ Billy Graham

The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
‐‐ Jerry B. Jenkins

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
‐‐ Carl Jung

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
‐‐ Vance Packard

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
‐‐ Karl Rahner

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
‐‐ David Hume

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
‐‐ Hans Urs von Balthasar

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
‐‐ Mark Twain

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
‐‐ Ed Markey

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.
‐‐ John Oates

The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.
‐‐ Jose Andres

The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.
‐‐ Donald Berwick

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
‐‐ Chris Riddell

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
‐‐ John Sweeney

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.
‐‐ Roger Mahony

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
‐‐ Lance Morrow

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
‐‐ Robert McAfee Brown

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
‐‐ Claudio Hummes

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The church has given me balance.
‐‐ Jennifer Hudson

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

The Church in England is the Church of England.
‐‐ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
‐‐ Claudio Hummes

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

The church is in the hope business.
‐‐ John Ortberg

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
‐‐ John Ortberg

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.
‐‐ Pope Francis