Christian Quotes

Good things happen to good people.

We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

In Luke's Gospel, Jesus is never unkind to the weak. He treats Martha with humiliating honesty, just as he would treat the male disciples.

The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.

Her model of self-control with food is why I have never had an issue in this area.  Praise God for my mom's good example in how to eat.

We don't treat Jesus like a puppy, soaking in his excitement over our coming home and then leading him back to stay in the laundry room when we go out to begin another day.

When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God, " the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.

It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

Jesus, I am sorry.

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.

Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.

The only Christian work is good work well done.

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

I only found myself when I stopped looking. . .

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves "I'm confident" or "I'm doing well." But then, in a moment alone at home, you feel how close you are to some kind of abyss.

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

You don't ever heal your heart, you learn that your heart is the one that heals you, once you know to let it.

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step

God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".R. Alan Woods [2012]

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair

Scientists are in the strange position of being confronted daily by the indisputable fact of their own consciousness, yet with no way of explaining it.

Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.

In the midst of all of this perfect beauty, timeless since the days of Eve, it's the touch of God creating miracles, if in your heart you just believe.

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.

The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints.

Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.

Home does not have to be a place, but a feeling. Once one figures out how to find this feeling in multiple places they will always feel at home with them self.

A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart - & here are the flowers.