Quotes of: Christian-right Keyword

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in s...

Mere Christianity

The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my bei...

God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal...

The Best of "The Public Square": Book Two

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and wal...

Mere Christianity

Sire," Oliver said as he helped Petunia to her feet, "I'd like to marry Petunia. "Of course you would," retorted the King Gregor. "But not right now! we just got those two taken care of." He pointed to the twins who were still trying to play Christia...

Princess of the Silver Woods

your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't ...

Oswald Chambers

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit ...

Robert G. Ingersoll

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunc...

Kevin DeYoung

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring childre...

Anne Lamott

Become what you would want to marry ,as in, become like the person that you would want to marry.

To Christian Women

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

The Greatness of the Great Commission: The Christian Enterprise in a Fallen World

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

The Leper of Saint Giles

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings

Redemption is as comprehensive as creation or fall.

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Michael Novak

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Philip Yancey

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

Ruth Hurmence Green

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

Sara Zarr