Christian God Quotes:

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Life, Spiritual Advice

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Depression, God, Encouragement, Pain And Pleasure, Joy And Pain

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", and "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Change, Men, Mind, Individual Liberty, Theocracy

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

- William Carey

topic: Spiritual, Christian Inspirational, Religion, Inspirational Missionary, Mission And Vision

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

- Billy Graham

topic: Forgiveness, Christian, Powerful, God Help Me, Asking For Help

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Existence, Boldness, Evidence Of God, Theism, World Religions

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Pain, Speak, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure, Joy And Pain

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Children, Hypocrite, Being A Hypocrite, One Half

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Believe, Ignorance, Theism, State Government

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

- Thomas Paine

source: Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

topic: Bible, Religious, Faith Religion, Called By God, Voluptuous

The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Believe, Men, Deism, Clergy

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Faith, Godly, Christian Inspirational, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

- Max Lucado

source: Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.173, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Christian, Inspiration, Godly, Christian Life, Christian Living

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

topic: Religious, Faith Religion, Daylight, Christian God, Christianity From Founding Fathers

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Jesus, Father, Brain, Minerva, World Religions

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Love, Faith, God, Seeking God, Inspirational Death

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

- Hudson Taylor

topic: Inspiring, Missionary, Done, Jesus Inspirational, Work Done

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Faith Religion, Daylight, Witch, Clergy, Christian God

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Blood, Growth, Our Founding Fathers, Cerberus

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Men, Mind, Censorship, Individual Liberty, Theocracy

As the government of the United States 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 [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

- John Adams

topic: Christian, Country, Religious, State Government, Deism

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.209

topic: Religious, Believe, Men, Platonic, Founding

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Atheist, Religion, Anti Religious, Theism

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

- John Adams

topic: Religious, Insightful, Liberty, Anti Religious, Founding

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Christian, Character, Religion, Capricious, Anti Religious

God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.

- John Shelby Spong

source: "Walking into the Mystery of God" by John Shelby Spong, www.uua.org.

topic: Christian, Buddhist, Thinking, Mystery Of God, Christian God

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Christian, Atheist, Hypocrite, Capricious, Anti Religious

When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.

- Jentezen Franklin

topic: Christian, Fasting, Three, Christian God

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Christian, Animal, Saint, Organized Religion, Christian God

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

- Miroslav Volf

topic: Christian, Lonely, New Relationship, Foursomes, Christian God

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me -- I actually took my teachers seriously!

- Sinclair Lewis

topic: Christian, Teacher, Believe, Christian God

Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.

- Georgia Harkness

topic: God, Christian, Father, Christian God

What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Christian, School, Sunday, Sunday School, Groveling

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Christian, Animal, Men, Christian God

You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.

- Brad Stine

topic: Happiness, Christian, Country, Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness, Christian God

The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

- Dan Brown

topic: Christian, Morning, Sunday, Egyptian, Sun God

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

- Carl Jung

source: "Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939". Book edited by James L. Jarrett, p. 40, 1988.

topic: Christian, Love Is, Guiding Principles, Christian God

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.526, Modern Library

topic: Christian, Feelings, Earth, Genealogy, Indebtedness

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

topic: Christian, Want, Awful, Christian God, Biggest Fear

But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And even if they did, why would the Prime Mover need to be a supernatural anthropomorphic deity such as the Judeo - Christian God? Why could it not just as well be the material universe itself?

- Victor J. Stenger

topic: Christian, Religion, Needs, Christian God

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Christian, Atheist, Lying, Christian God, Babylon

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

- Charles Bradlaugh

topic: Christian, Atheist, Mean, Unprepared, Christian God

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

- William A. Dembski

topic: Christian, Believe, Intelligent, Intelligent Design, Christian God

The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.

- Matt Dillahunty

topic: Christian, Ideas, Perfect, Christian God

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: God, Christian, Differences, Christian God

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Christian, Thinking, Religion, Christian God

For everything that happens to a Christian, God is aware.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Christian, Only God Knows, Christian God