Christianity Quotes

To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.

Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

Church isn’t perfect. It’s practice.

God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

Truth is, we don’t get grace. But it sure can get us.

If you boiled down the gospel to one word, it would be love.

Jesus consistently put people before rules.

We share the gospel with others because we believe the gospel is not just about heaven, but about having life even here on earth.

God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

Perhaps being a Christian isn’t about experiencing the kingdom of heaven someday but about experiencing the kingdom of heaven every day.

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?

If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.

For Jesus, it was about the Father and us. It was not about Him. Could we say the same about ourselves? From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

Stop trying, & start trusting.

Christianity is a journey not a destination

If loving and communing with God isn’t your primary purpose in prayer, you’re missing out on what Christianity is all about!

I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.

If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.

When it comes to worry, our problem is we fear an invisible future that a timeless God has seen. Perhaps you should talk to Him about it.

Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God's special revelation.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

We have to allow God to do a work in us before He can do a work through us.

The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.

the value of a man increases only when he has a consistent relationship with God

God don't call the qualified, He qualifies the called

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others

Waiting well looks forward to the future while staying present in the present. Waiting well means I remain open to God and allow Him to move me toward the future He has planned, in His time.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians’ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.