Christian Quotes

Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.

A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

I find it ironic that people who are against things that cause sexual thoughts are generally fundamentalist Christians who also believe you should be fruitful and multiply.

A Christian will say... "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Do not limit the limitless God! With Him, face the future unafraid because you are never alone.

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!