Christianity Quotes
My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.
I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands-hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails
I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails
The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.
Faith is then a choice we make, making faith an attitude that leads to action.
The purpose of my faith is to bring me hope without fear. This is not only beneficial for the life to come, but also in this present life as well.
To live without faith is to live without hope.
I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.
True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any ‘place’.
If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.
I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.
In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.
Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.
Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.
A daily conviction that Jesus Christ is alive draws our hearts closer to Him to believe that He is alive to work in our lives!
With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.
... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
The key to the Almighty's favor is to hold on with firm belief that the promises of God's Word are true.
Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.
If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.
We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)
Scripture doesn’t speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
Faith is something you take a day at a time, not something you figured out at the start
Church isn’t about you! It’s about worshipping Jesus. Instead of being consumers, let’s go to church and ask what we can give Jesus because of all he has given us.
There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.
Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.
Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.
Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God’s design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
Christian education begins where evangelism ends, helping believers grow in their faith.
Nothing will give you emotional laryngitis like living in close proximity to someone who refuses to listen. Having emotions but no voice chokes the life out of relationships.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay