Christian Quotes - page 10

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life. (Jerry Bridges)
If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty. View quote
John Piper
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good. View quote
John Piper
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith. View quote
John Piper
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. View quote
Zack Snyder
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was. View quote
Elaine Pagels
We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done. View quote
Enid Blyton
I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. View quote
Ken Hensley
Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record. View quote
Ken Hensley
I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me. (Christina Ricci)
We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole. View quote
Loretta Chase
If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes! View quote
Joyce Meyer
Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car. View quote
Joyce Meyer
[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable. View quote
Joyce Meyer
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. View quote
Peter L. Berger
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. View quote
Amin Maalouf
‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation. View quote
Billy Graham
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. View quote
Billy Graham
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)
Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig. View quote
Leon Bloy
It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal " call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels. View quote
Hermann Rauschning
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. View quote
Christopher Dawson
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. View quote
Christopher Dawson