Christianity Quotes

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

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.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?