Christian Living Quotes
Christian Living Quote of the day
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God
Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.
Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
There are so many things we do not appreciate in our life until we recognize God's love for us in them.
Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.
If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.
Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly.
More important than starting well in our walk with God is to finish well.
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.
As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.
Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.
It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.
We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.
CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.