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Christian   /krˈɪstʃən/  /krˈɪstʃɪn/   Listen
Christian

adjective
1.
Relating to or characteristic of Christianity.
2.
Following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ.
noun
1.
A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination.



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"Christian" Quotes from Famous Books



... machines," said Aunt Amelia disapprovingly. "No right-minded Christian who wishes to live out the life his Creator has given him would ever ride behind one. I have heard that ...
— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

... motive may be this: To grow in this grace of the fear of God, is the way to be kept always in a conscientious performance of Christian duties. An increase in this grace, I say, keeps every grace in exercise, and the keeping of our graces in their due exercise, produceth a conscientious performance of duties. Thou hast a watch perhaps in ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... of notoriety among such of Mr. Breckon's variegated congregation as knew one another that Mrs. Rasmith had set her heart on him, it Julia had not set her cap for him. In that pied flock, where every shade and dapple of doubt, from heterodox Jew to agnostic Christian, foregathered, as it has been said, in the misgiving of a blessed immortality, the devotion of Mrs. Rasmith to the minister had been almost a scandal. Nothing had saved the appearance from this character but Mr. Breckon's open acceptance of her flatteries and hospitalities; this ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... naturally indignant at such outrage and robbery, made attacks upon the boors to recover the cattle, but with this difference between the Christian boor and the untutored savage: the boors murdered women and children wantonly, the Caffres never harmed them, and did not even kill men, if they could obtain possession of their property ...
— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat

... a beautiful analogy between the events of the Israelites in their journey out of Egypt into Canaan and the fundamental experiences of the Christian. Note these parallels—far too close not to have been planned as type and antitype by the great ...
— Adventures in the Land of Canaan • Robert Lee Berry


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