Christianity Quotes

We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are.

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

Humanity might bless earth--if we work with and for creation, if we master our selfishness in service to all our neighbors, if we cultivate wildness as a kind of wealth.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

Achieving great things through training, tenacity & time doesn't make someone vain. It lessens vanity! Therefore, I have one question: is @realDonaldTrump vain?

It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.

What a mess you’ve made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

There is nothing as delicate, as stunning, and as vulnerable as the heart.

We don't need to pacify our issues, we need to crucify them.

If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth.

He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.

To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.

The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong.

A disciple of Jesus Christ is a visible verbal follower of Jesus Christ at the expense of the ones and things that they hold dear. It's that serious.

Our Christianity has become superstitious.

Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.

There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.

Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.

Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

One of the greatest threats to the impossible is the easily possible.

Sanctification of souls!

God’s glory is seen in his grace.

It is so easy to have problems with people when you are not God's will.

Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.

When you cant decipher the seasons, you are unable to know your destiny.

Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.

Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.

Success starts with a Vision

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.

Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?

Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.

Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning.

God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.

A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

Mmm, bacon.

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

There is no cancer, no sickness, no sin, no reversal of fortunes, no curse, no heartache - nothing - that's greater than Jesus. Jesus heals. Jesus restores. Jesus brings life.

If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.

Today we have different idols. . . We have trusted in human reason, science, and technology to solve our problems and progress toward a better world and a prosperous life. Yet idolatry brings death.

The cross I made needs no man on its chest, for its eyes are where its heart is.

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

God is always present. We’re the ones who show up.

All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.