Christian Quotes
A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.
Obedience requires knowing God’s word, His expectations and then actually living them out.
We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).
Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.
I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.
Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.
The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.
To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.
The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.
Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.
The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.
I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.
When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don’t love him above all.
Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.
Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.
Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.
There is no such thing as an independent Christian.
We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.
There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.
Worship is the launching pad for life.
I have seen the greatest artists and the most eccentric divas in music. The greater and more visionary they were, the more self-reflexive and childlike they behaved.
Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect.
For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.
Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.
We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.
I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.
...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.
Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.
In life don't complain about anything ifyou're the reason for the outcome
I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion
It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.
The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.
We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.
The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.
Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.