I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year. – Trent Franks
We’ll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam. – Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe. – Viktor Orban
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there’s no reason to revisit step one. – Tullian Tchividjian
To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don’t become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that. – Stanley Hauerwas
I’m a Christian, and I’m not judgmental towards anyone. I think that’s really important. – Samuel Larsen
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. – William Ralph Inge
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. – Thomas Arnold
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. – Troy Perry
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. – Umberto Eco
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian. – Trevor Phillips
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. – Vance Packard
If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it’s not a duty; it’s a kind of joy. – Susan Howatch
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. – William Law
I’m always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian. – Sara Zarr
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel – and we, ironically, become more disobedient. – Tullian Tchividjian
St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn’t. – Simon Schama
People have to realize that just because you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean that you’re perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. – Tim Tebow
I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that’s what helps me get to an emotional place. – Steven Yeun
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. – Susan B. Anthony
Forgiveness is a big part of – especially post-civil rights movement – is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn’t raised within the Christian church; I wasn’t raised within any church. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
