Christian Quotes - Page 39

• I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Mean, Followers, Path

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Memories, Real, Character

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Way, Humans

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be, where it's supposed to go, where it's supposed to derive its strength from, don't look at anything people say about me. Don't look at the faith that's been created. Look at my life, which is a life ultimately of sacrificial love."

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Names, People

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Important, Way

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dimensions, Speak, Ifs

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Rebellious, My Family, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But when General Ziaul Haq introduced the strict blasphemy - 295 A, B, C - of Pakistan's penal code, then from 1986 to today there are hundreds cases that are registered under the protection of blasphemy law. And until today, no case against any minorities, and especially Christians, is proved in the higher court. The lower court would order punishment but the higher court would always acquit people. So it proves that this law is being used as a tool of victimization against minorities and innocent people of Pakistan.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Law, Punishment, Order

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There's no definition of blasphemy in this law. Then this only protects the one religion, whether we agree or not. I as a Christian believe we don't need any law to protect Jesus Christ because the law cannot protect the respect of Jesus Christ. The heart and mind are the ones that can protect and give respect to Christ.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I made it clear that I will consider - this is the important phrase I am trying to say - myself most fortunate if Jesus Christ will accept the sacrifice of my blood to raise the voice for the justice and rights of the persecuted and victimized Christians and other minorities in Pakistan.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Rights

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

  Jim Hamilton

  Prayer, Next Day, Drunk

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.

  Michael Emerson

  Wall, Ethnicity, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.

  Michael Emerson

  Stress, Moving, Talking

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• I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

  Hutch Harris

  Believe, People, Humanity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.

  Richard Rodriguez

  New York, Real, Taken

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

  Mike Berenstain

  Mother, Religious, Children

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.

  Mike Berenstain

  Spiritual, Children, School

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

  LeCrae

  Artist, Roots, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.

  Ian Astbury

  Pagan, Caught, Whole

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.

  Cornel West

  Kings, People, Justice

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• I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from my right-wing brothers and sisters, even though I'm a progressive. I want to learn something from the elderly, even though I'm middle-aged or tilting toward the elderly. I want to learn especially something from the youth. That's why I spend a lot of time in hip-hop studios.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Wings, Elderly

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.

  Cornel West

  Heart, Fire, People

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Thinking, Class

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Religious, Morning, Growing Up

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• We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.

  Rand Paul

  Islamic, Heart, Cutting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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