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Image of John C. Maxwell
I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon they wanted more. So I realized I could not only minister to the Christian community, but I could also minister to the corporate community. So my books started crossing over, and then I began to intentionally have them cross over.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Christian
Image of Max Lucado
I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Christian
Image of Karl Barth
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
- Karl Barth
Collection: Christian
Image of Karl Barth
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.
- Karl Barth
Collection: Christian
Image of Karl Barth
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
- Karl Barth
Collection: Christian
Image of Chris Matthews
Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.
- Chris Matthews
Collection: Christian
Image of H. L. Mencken
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Christian
Image of John C. Maxwell
We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater, and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Christian
Image of John C. Maxwell
We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Christian
Image of Max Lucado
I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Christian
Image of Max Lucado
For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery and analogy for the Christian life. As Christians, we have the same images. We've come out of Egypt (been saved) we've crossed over, and Jesus Christ is our Moses and our Joshua.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Christian
Image of Max Lucado
I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Christian
Image of Yann Martel
God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Christian
Image of George MacDonald
I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Christian
Image of Norm MacDonald
A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
- Norm MacDonald
Collection: Christian
Image of Malcolm X
I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Christian
Image of John Adams
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
- John Adams
Collection: Christian
Image of John C. Maxwell
The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Christian
Image of Andre Malraux
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.
- Andre Malraux
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of Yann Martel
But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Christian
Image of Malcolm X
I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That's the One we believe in, the One Who created universe - the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Christian
Image of Malcolm X
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!
- Malcolm X
Collection: Christian
Image of Ignatius of Loyola
One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.
- Ignatius of Loyola
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of H. L. Mencken
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Christian
Image of Herman Melville
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Christian
Image of Clare Boothe Luce
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Collection: Christian
Image of John Quincy Adams
The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made 'bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' (Isaiah 52:10).
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: Christian
Image of Marilyn Manson
if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most.
- Marilyn Manson
Collection: Christian
Image of John Adams
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
- John Adams
Collection: Christian
Image of Preston Manning
My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.
- Preston Manning
Collection: Christian
Image of Brennan Manning
Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.
- Brennan Manning
Collection: Christian
Image of Brennan Manning
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
- Brennan Manning
Collection: Christian
Image of Brennan Manning
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
- Brennan Manning
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of George MacDonald
The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of Martin Luther
If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Christian
Image of James Madison
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
- James Madison
Collection: Christian
Image of H. L. Mencken
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Christian
Image of Karl Barth
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
- Karl Barth
Collection: Christian
Image of Karl Barth
To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
- Karl Barth
Collection: Christian
Image of Terence McKenna
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Christian