“If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.” IfsWorldWayTryingChristianHeavenThis WorldCitizensObstaclesChristian InspirationalGodly Author:Vance Havner
“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.” WorldFeelsWellsMayChristianLawLyingPurposeHumanityChristianityRightsThis WorldReadyDutyHeroHigherCitizensDegreesTasksCastsFollowingDeedsAwakeEndeavorReverenceSmall ThingsLoftyResoluteLooking DownBasenessHigher Law Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.” NeedsShouldWarChristianTogetherCitizensThreatBombsAtomsPalestinianReferendumsAtom Bomb Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."” IfsWayWantLongHomeChristianAmericaJesusNationsAcceptingAtheismEffectsPrayingCitizensEqualMessagesAgreePositive AtheismWelcomeAdministrationMinoritiesSaviorGuestsTentsChristian Nation Author:Alan Dershowitz
“They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong.” PeopleKnowsLooksCountryChristianNationsSinCitizensCivilizationGayVoteUnionsWesternAverageScaryOur CountryAbortionGay MarriageAlrightWestern Civilization Author:Katherine Harris
“Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.” HumansChristianWealthHuman BeingsCitizensRelationMisers Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.” SelfActionChristianAsksBeliefReligiousEffectsFineCitizensBasesSplits Book:The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion
“Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.” IfsHumansDoeShowsChristianTurnsNationsReligiousCitizensHuman LifeDisregard Author:Tim LaHaye
“Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.” LongChristianAmericaNationsReligiousCitizensMovedAssumptionAnti ChristianChristian Nation Author:Daniel Lapin
“The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.” StatesBodyChristianUsedChurchReligiousOpinionCitizensConvictionDivisionArbitraryChurch And StateRallyingRallying Point Author:Francis Schaeffer
“American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe.” Has BeensImportantCountryStatesChristianReligiousUnitedUnited StatesIssuesSawsCitizensEuropeSilentNaziSymptomsAmerican CitizensImportant IssuesAustria Author:Maria von Trapp
“Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.” PeopleSelfChristianInterestSimpleVirtueDemocracyLandDutyCitizensRepublicanProtectGoodnessStandingArmyThreatSimplicityMannersRelyRepublicTyrantsImperativesSelf InterestMonarchyCoercionBenevolenceSplendorSobrietyFactionsDazzlingFrugalityPublic GoodYeoman Author:James Monroe
“The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.” IdeasEarthChristianUniverseHeavenPerfectDivinePlanetsCitizensFundamentalsNotionForgottenPeculiarRejectedNastySuccessorsTainted Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos