Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.

I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

I am interested in bringing Africa to the foot of the Cross.

Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

I became a Christian because I met God.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

I never heard the Gospel until I was 18 years old. Jesus Christ... the name was synonymous to me as the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus.

I had a lot of friends be kind of standoffish after I became a Christian.

I became a Christian when I was 19, and it wasn't like I was raised with the church.

I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

I was born again. It happens to Episcopalians. Sometimes it doesn't hit you till you're 47 years old. It changed my whole life for the better... I spent a lot of time giving Christian witness all over the country to church groups and stuff.

My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.