Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who talk faith before going off to speak in tongues to their mistresses, Hollywood just doesn't wear its faith on its sleeve.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.

Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple leaving, and the lady said, oh, I have to hurry home. I'm going to church tomorrow. And her friends said, church? You've already been to church.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.