Born Again Christianity Quotes

“Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

“As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother.

"If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.”
― N.T. Wright

“In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

“Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.”
― Robert M. Price

“Children are adorable.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great!

“After several months of urging and suggestions that I should become a Christian, with shock after shock of embarrassment or fear or shame or something, as keen as though one had cut my flesh and pricked at a nerve, I decided upon an incident which I called my conversion.”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years

“With Bob Dylan, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, and convicted Watergate lawyer Charles Colson proudly declaring to be 'born again,' Newsweek and Time called 1976 'the Year of the Evangelical.' The most famous 'born-again' Christian in the United States that year, however, was president-elect James Earl Carter.
That same year, Francis Schaefer wrote How Should We Then Live, explicitly arguing that proliferating pornography, accelerating abortion rates, prohibition of prayer in public school, and other examples of 'secular humanism' were the work of Satan. It was the mission of evangelical Christians to save the country from Satan by taking back their government. Schaefer was central in bringing evangelical Christians to politics, but he was a reclusive intellectual theologian living on a mountaintop in Switzerland. His clarion call would not have been distributed so extensively without an infusion of money from Nelson Bunker Hunt. The rotund international oilman bankrolled a documentary adaptation of How Should We The n Live. A phenomenal success, the film convinced thousands of evangelical Christian that a culture war was afoot, and they had an obligation to take the fight to Satan by abandoning any past reluctance to engage in politics.”
― Edward H. Miller, A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

“Everyone Needs a Compass

Sooner or later, everyone needs a compass. Some discover this need at life’s peak, amidst success and wealth, only to find an emptiness that prestige cannot fill. Others hit rock bottom before they scream for help, their only option to look up.

The point is not how we get there, but that we finally see our need. A person in darkness doesn’t interrogate their rescuer; a man in freefall doesn’t pause to study the hand that saves him.

I was that person. I fought the truth until I had no fight left. I struggled with Jesus until my struggle made no sense. Standing at the cliff's edge, I finally asked for help. I needed a true compass. And in that moment, light flooded in, a peace I couldn’t explain overwhelmed me, and my path became clear.”
― Abiodun Fijabi