Quotes on Christian

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.

Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

We have not received the Spirit of God because we believe, but that we may believe.

Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.