Christian Quotes

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.

If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

The goal of the Christian is not to become like Jesus; because as He is, so are we in this world.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

We don't get to decide who God is.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.