Christian Faith Quotes

• I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Champion, President

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• Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Thinking, Creeds

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• Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

  Austin Farrer

  Christian, Acting, Doe

  "Faith and Logic: Oxford Essays in Philosophical Theology". Book by Basil Mitchell, p. 99, 1957.

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• I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Believe, Doe

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• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  Patricia Ireland

  Christian, Giving, Belief

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• All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

  Mike Huckabee

  Christian, Children, Grateful

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• The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian Inspirational, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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  Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trust, Faith, God

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• All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• 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.

  John Piper

  Christian, Humility, Grace

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• We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Religious, Behavior

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• Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

  Barack Obama

  Muslim Faith, People, Abortion

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• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Islamic

  President Obama's remarks to the Turkish Parliament, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 6, 2009.

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• I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

  Barack Obama

  Christian Values, Mind Blowing, Islam

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

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• Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

  Barack Obama

  Muslim Faith, Diversity, Mind Blowing

  Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2010.

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• The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Reason, Capacity

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• The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Pain, Disappointment

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, World Religions

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• We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, People, Wish

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• 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

  Christian, Sea, Giving

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.140

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