Christian Quotes

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.

I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.