Christian Influence Quotes

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

I grew up with the Bible education, and my values come from there.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

Frankly, Christians have not always made good presidents.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996.

Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.

Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.

I never want to hear about going to hell if I did something wrong. But I do use Jesus as my curve point, and I think of his teachings when it comes to how I want to treat people.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death Belt. Wherever Christians are most concentrated is where executions are happening, and that's deeply troubling to me.