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title: "17 American Christians Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 17 American Christians quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best American Christians sayings and thoughts."
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> [Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-stearns/can-you-imagine-the-impact-on-our-own-culture-if-american-christians/)

[Richard Stearns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-stearns/)

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> [“American Christians don’t want to experience community. Or, at least, they want other things more.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-c-wilson/american-christians-don-t-want-to-experience-community-or-at-least/)

[Jared C. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-c-wilson/)

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> [Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-noll/early-america-does-not-deserve-to-be-considered-uniquely-distinctly/)

[Mark Noll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-noll/)

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> [“If Jesus viewed the desire to acquire political power to be a temptation of the devil, why do so many American Christians…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-giles/if-jesus-viewed-the-desire-to-acquire-political-power-to-be-a/)

[Keith Giles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-giles/)

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> [Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthea-butler/forgiveness-is-a-spiritual-practice-and-biblical-mandate-from-the-new/)

[Anthea Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthea-butler/)

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> [My work in Africa was paid for mostly by American Christians, and I am so thankful for their giving hearts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhard-bonnke/my-work-in-africa-was-paid-for-mostly-by-american-christians-and-i-am/)

[Reinhard Bonnke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhard-bonnke/)

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> [American Christians are quite able to organize around issues that concern them. Yet religious persecution appears not to have grabbed their attention,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirsten-powers/american-christians-are-quite-able-to-organize-around-issues-that/)

[Kirsten Powers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirsten-powers/)

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> [There are all kinds of great things that megachurches and successful fundraising appeals can allow you to do, especially in terms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-douthat/there-are-all-kinds-of-great-things-that-megachurches-and-successful/)

[Ross Douthat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-douthat/)

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> [American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-von-trapp/american-christians-have-been-woefully-silent-on-important-issues-i/)

[Maria von Trapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-von-trapp/)

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> [Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-e-olson/too-many-american-and-other-christians-revel-in-feelings-and-or/)

[Roger E. Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-e-olson/)

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> [“The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/the-church-s-primary-purpose-is-not-to-make-america-more-christian/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

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> [Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/subtract-miracles-from-islam-buddhism-confucianism-or-toaism-and-you/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [“American Christians have often allowed the world to determine their view of power and privilege, rather than Scripture. This has created an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-t-olson/american-christians-have-often-allowed-the-world-to-determine-their/)

[David T. Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-t-olson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95e/david-t-olson-60141_bible_american-christians-have-often-allowed-t_2427504.jpg)

> [“Part of the scandal of American Christianity is that statistically the U.S. is the most Christian country in the world, and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-borg/part-of-the-scandal-of-american-christianity-is-that-statistically/)

[Marcus Borg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-borg/)

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> [“Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/here-is-a-statistic-that-does-matter-three-quarters-of-americans/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [“American Christians may be fearful of the dramatic changes that have already occurred in the world and in American Christianity. Could that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soong-chan-rah/american-christians-may-be-fearful-of-the-dramatic-changes-that-have/)

[Soong-Chan Rah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soong-chan-rah/)

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> [“I suspect the next 10 years will be years of turmoil and hardship the globe over, and with that will come a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/i-suspect-the-next-10-years-will-be-years-of-turmoil-and-hardship-the/)

[Lauren F. Winner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-f-winner/)

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                        "text": "Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.",
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                        "text": "“American Christians have often allowed the world to determine their view of power and privilege, rather than Scripture. This has created an Anglo Christianity that is increasingly affluent, suburban, and educated, yet functionally disconnected from non-Anglo populations. A multiethnic church will bring to American Christianity a new awareness of these issues from a biblical perspective so that the new people of God, the church, may truly reflect the diversity and equality inherent in the gospel.”",
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                        "text": "“Part of the scandal of American Christianity is that statistically the U.S. is the most Christian country in the world, and yet as a country we have the greatest income inequality in the world. And as a country we are uncritically committed, not simply to being the most powerful nation in the world militarily, but to being as militarily powerful as the rest of the world combined. We Christians live in a tradition that is passionate about issues of economic justice and peace and yet at least half of American Christians, probably even more, think it’s really important that we be as powerful as the rest of the world put together.”",
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                        "text": "“Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.” That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin's wisdom not biblical; it's counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of neighbor. On this essential matter, most Americans—most American Christians—are simply wrong, as if 75 percent of American scientists believed that Newton proved gravity causes apples to fly up.”",
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                        "text": "“American Christians may be fearful of the dramatic changes that have already occurred in the world and in American Christianity. Could that fear be rooted in a loss of power as the demographics of world Christianity begin to favor non-Western nations? But these changes in Christianity may be exactly what God intended, requiring American Christians to relinquish a historical dominance and embrace a greater mutuality, equality and reciprocity in twenty-first-century world Christianity.”",
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