Christianity Quotes

Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind, ' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current--carried where?

Christians need to set the example with their words. Christians should think twice about the negative things that they say and not hesitate to say something positive.

[Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…

God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up.

Love is seeking the good and being the good.

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

I have learned in my journey of faith that, the closer I am walking with God, the more likely the devil will be working to make me stumble.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign

There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

Your past does not have to dictate your future. You have the God-given power to make your life better and to heal from divorce.

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea offree will would be helpless without incongruity.

Christianity without mission is like ice cream without frozenness.

Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.

if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!

Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions. (p. 70)

Christian love is not a wave of emotion, but a deliberate conviction of the mind that issues in a biblical way of life. (p. 36)

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.

Devotion to sacred cause is divine.

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.

To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.

In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place it on His provision.

Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)

Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.