All Quotes By Tag: Christian-behavior

“It is not possible to be ‘incidentally a Christian.’ The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.”

“We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.”

“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

“We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives – but in what we do for others”

“Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it”

“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”

“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!”

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

“Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.”

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.”

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

“Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.”