Christian Quotes - Page 395

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what will come from it, and you will see that your insulter has become the cause of many benefits to you, not only in this age, but in that which is to come.

This goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: To the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It's just a little thing, really. But do you think that when you're done smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you're at it... do you think the rest of us could have our planet back?

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.

I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black people across ideological, class lines, denominational religious lines, Christians, as well as Muslims, to build a strong movement for justice and for empowerment.

The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.

All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.

Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.

Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views.