Christian Truth Quotes

• Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Church, Essentials

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• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mind Blowing, Islam

  "Anti-Obama Mail Piece: ‘We Are No Longer a Christian Nation’" by Peter Hamby, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 33: Sermons 1938-2000”, p.488, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Faith, Spiritual, Religious

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mind Blowing, Islam

  The President's News Conference With President Abdullah Gul of Turkey in Ankara, Turkey, April 6, 2009.

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• The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Philosophy, America

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• The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

  John Baillie

  Christian, Prayer, Truth

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• Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Suicide, Atheist

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• You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

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• A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, Character, Men

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• The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Truth, Facts

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• We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, People, Taught

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• I am writing for the Christian agnostic, by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted to Christ and who seeks to show his spirit, to meet the challenges, hardships, and sorrows of life in the light of that spirit, but who, though he is sure of many Christian truths, feels that he cannot honestly and conscientiously 'sign on the dotted line' that he believes certain theological ideas about what some branches of the Church dogmatize.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Christian, Believe, Writing

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• To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Church, Way

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Missionary, Bishops

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