Christian Quotes

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.

Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus Your name holds everything I need.

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

The Christian faith is a singing faith, and a good way to express it and share it with others is in community singing.

Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

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.

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.

If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.

When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions.

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.

In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.