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Christian Quotes by Philip Yancey
- In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand…
- I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
- Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should…
- The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they…
- Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
- We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
- Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live…
- We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
- The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
- Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
- Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
- If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian…
- What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
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- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar