Aimee Semple McPherson Quotes

If any man wills to be a Christian, he can be a Christian. If you go to hell, you go of your own accord.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

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

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Mistake
  • Hell
  • Environmental

• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Politics
  • Hell
  • Vote

• California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • California
  • Hell

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• 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

• I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Husband

• We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Good
  • God
  • Respect

• My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • World
  • Mother
  • Parents

• As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Hell

• My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Mom
  • Christian

• I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Believe
  • School
  • High

• Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • God
  • Christian

• Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Faith
  • Christian

• Voting for a candidate solely because of that candidate's support for abortion or against him or her solely on the basis of his or her race is to promote an intrinsic evil. To do so consciously is indeed sinful. That is behavior incompatible with being a Christian.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Support
  • Evil
  • Christian

• I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

  

  Del Shannon
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • God
  • Culture
  • Taken

• The religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • America
  • History
  • Christian

• A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Christian
  • Creator

• I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Politician

• You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

  

  Lou Gramm Foreigner
  • Work

• If any man wills to be a Christian, he can be a Christian. If you go to hell, you go of your own accord.

  

  Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Christian
  • Hell
  • Accord