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

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Billy Graham

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

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
Dwight L. Moody

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler Yeats

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry