Good Christian Quotes

• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faith, Philosophy, Christianity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion”, p.193

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• Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

  William Penn

  Love Is, Lessons, Care

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Christian, Believe, Numbers

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• Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Men, Citizens

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.53

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• It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Heart, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Friday, Sunday

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.176

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• Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

  Anne Boleyn

  Christian, Men, Law

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• Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

  Adam Smith

  Christian, Fake People, Real

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• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Freedom, Men

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• Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Melancholy, Pleasure

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• I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

  Loretta Lynn

  Christian, Trying, Too Much

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.14, Vintage

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• I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Christian, Hands, People

  Lady Jane Grey (1951). “The Letters of Lady Jane Grey”

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

  William Blake

  Faith, Forgiveness, Christian Inspirational

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Thinking, Atheism

  "The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor" by Ed Magnuson, content.time.com. July 20, 1981.

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• And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

  Mike Pence

  People, Way, Firsts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

  Pope Gregory I

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  People, Challenges, Church

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• Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Attitude, Praying To God

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

  Carrie Fisher

  Christmas, Christian, Kindness

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• It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

  Bridget Riley

  Loss, Thinking, Christianity

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• If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Law, Christianity, Truth Is

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.412, Jazzybee Verlag

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