Hal Duncan Quotes

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Music
  • Christian
  • Never

• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

  

  Maggie Grace
  • School
  • Christian
  • Kid

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Christian
  • Idea
  • Go

• What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Together
  • Want
  • Community

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Book
  • America
  • Christian

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Religion

• I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Movie
  • College

• In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Wife
  • Christian
  • Blue

• English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Christian
  • Perfection

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• De Soya blinks. 'Suicide is a mortal sin,' he says.On the screen the girl nods seriously. 'Yes,' she says, 'but I am not a Christian. Also, I'd rather go to hell than go with you.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • She
  • Girl
  • Christian

• When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Music
  • God
  • Different

• To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • World
  • Men
  • Christian

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • World
  • Today
  • Peace

• You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.

  

  Uffie
  • Time
  • Career
  • Struggle

• Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Christian