But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. - Barbara Ehrenreich His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment. - Reginald Hill All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. - Orson Pratt The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. - Orson Pratt

I am a Christian...so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a 'long defeat' though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory. - J R R Tolkien I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church. - Sandy Adams I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all. - Franklin D Roosevelt I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. - George Bernard Shaw And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made. - Kristin Chenoweth I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. - John Irving The fact...

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. - Francis Ford Coppola A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year. - Roger Moore

Redemption consists primarily of casting out our mental idols and turning back to the true God. And when we do that, we will experience His transforming power renewing every aspect of our lives. To talk of a Christian Worldview is simply another way of saying that when we are redeemed, our entire outlook on life is re-centered on God and rebuilt on His revealed truth. - Nancy Pearcey Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world. - Nancy Pearcey As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him. - Nancy Pearcey The Legend of the Firefish,first in the Trophy Chase Trilogy by ...

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support. - Ellen Degeneres Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule. - Ellen Degeneres My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church. - Henry Fonda

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good. - John Piper The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. - John Strachan

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. - Stephen Colbert One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. - Barack Obama He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation. - Francis Scott Key The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. - Pat Robertson I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational d...

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. - Deepak Chopra The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. - Carl Jung Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So, when missionaries ventured to Alaska and warned the Eskimos of the horrors of Hell and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they eagerly asked: "How do we get there?"! - Anton Lavey The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. - Hu Shih It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and ...

Hope E.L.James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream. - Bret Easton Ellis Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. - Bret Easton Ellis I'd never beat you black and blue. I aim for pink. -- Christian Grey - James E Rogers From: Christian Grey Subject: My Life's Mission... Date: September 5, 2011 09:25 To: Anastasia Grey Is to spoil you, Mrs. Grey. And keep you safe because I love you. Christian Grey Smitten CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc. - James E Rogers Please him! He wants me to please him! I think my mouth drops open. Please Christian Grey. And I realize, in that moment, that yes, that's exactly what I want to do. I want him to be damned delighted with me. - James E Rogers From: Christian Grey Subject: One more request Date: June 10, 2011 00:15 To: Anastasia St...

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good. - Julia Barr I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour! - Lauren Hutton

The only reason my wife agreed to marry me is because Christian Bale wasn't around to propose to her. - Jarod Kintz Question for your life: Would you rather be the first female U.S. President, the first woman to walk on the moon, or the first woman to be courted by two clones who looked like Christian Bale? - Jarod Kintz Please do this for me, she begs me with her raspy Christian Bale-as-Batman voice. Somebody smoked too many cigarettes last night. - Andrew Shaffer