Good Christian Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

  George Whitefield

  Christianity, Duty, Known

  "Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects".

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• Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

  Brandon Boyd

  Christian, Giving Up, Mean

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• I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Country, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.535, Wildside Press LLC

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• Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Fighting, Race, Battle

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• I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

  Joseph Lister

  Doctrine, Fundamentals, Christianity

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• Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Today, Problem, Christianity

  Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.381, Northwestern University Press

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• See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Lying, Grief

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• A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

  John Angell James

  Christian, Husband, Father

  John Owen, John Angell James (2010). “The Marriage Ring: Or How to Make Home Happy”

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• At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Community, Christianity, Lord

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• Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Christian, Fall, Men

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• Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

  Michael Novak

  Christian, Ideas, Individual

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• Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Christian, Years, Democracy

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Christianity

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• To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Wine, Water

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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• In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Facts, Glory

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Moments, Courses

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• Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

  Barry Sanders

  Christian, Player, Battle

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• But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

  Bruno Bauer

  Art, Children, Important

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• The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

  Orson Pratt

  Christianity, Modern, Absurdity

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.13, Latter-day Strength

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• Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Believe, Church

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.

  William Prynne

  Christian, Song, Kissing

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• Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

  August Bebel

  Civilization, Enemy, Liberty

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• A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.401, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

  King James I

  Christian, Atheism, Disputes

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