Christian Quotes
It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.
We are traveling on with our staff in hand... We are pilgrims bound for the heavenly land.
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.
Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).
Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.
The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.
We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.
Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
