Christian Quotes

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

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.

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

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.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

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.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.

When you strip all of this down it's just about a God in Heaven who loves you very much. And created in you a heart for Him...Your heart was fashioned by Jesus and for Jesus.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

That is what a very Christian message is: to care about each other and to help those who need it the most.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.