Christian Fiction Quotes
The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.
Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.
In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.
Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey.
Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.
For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. "Teo, I think you have to let Deu be the God he is, not the god you want him to be.
There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.
They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.
Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.
Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.
Somebody’d better pray for him, don’t you think? He IS a lost soul.~Pastor John Linton
Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.
Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe…
You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.
I don’t want God's forgiveness. And He’s not getting mine.~Harry Silver
You know, sometimes love can be staring you right in the face, and you can be too blind to see it.
It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.
Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: “What-Would-Jesus-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.
We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.
He might not like that she'd dated the guy one, but he didn't want him dead. Most of the time.
He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.Because he loved her.
Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.
The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.
My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams
I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.
That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.
Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.
Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.
As a rule, Americans are big on that word “choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.
Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.
When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?'He beamed. 'Absolutely.'That was all I needed to hear. "Tea. A cup of tea.
She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.
In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?
If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.
-she loved Lily Cate like her own, and for this night, this moment, she would be her mother, even though there was no guarantee of tomorrow.
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.
You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.
You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.
If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.