Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

There is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah...

Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Went to church and fasted all day.

Their throats were bare for God.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.