Christian Behavior Quotes

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

~ Mother Teresa

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

~ Beatrix Potter

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

~ Woody Allen

Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.

~ Steve Maraboli

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

~ G.k. Chesterton

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

~ Stephen Colbert

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

~ Benjamin Franklin

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

~ Joyce Meyer

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

~ Harry Truman

We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

~ C.j. Mahaney

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.

~ Sheldon Vanauken

I don't think that God says, Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine. No. For me God says, Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.

~ Elvia Alvarado

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

~ Shane Claiborne

the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that I have failed to do God’s work. The government cannot take the place of Christian charity. A loving embrace isn’t given with food stamps. The care of a community isn’t provided with government housing. The face of our Creator can’t be seen on a welfare voucher. What the poor need is not another government program, what they need is for Christians like me to honor our savior.

~ Abraham Kuyper

So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! Well, that’s a noble thing to do, but a more solemn way is to see the Bible as not just a reading book, but a true practical book for true worshipers, and live it as such!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You have divine grace to forgive.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We have been blessed with the privilege to live life. May we live to the fullness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God guide you on the new travel path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never doubt, pray and believe.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

~ Kevin Max

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May we unite in our diverse pursuits to create a peaceful world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You possess a great soul, awaken the spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Giving is the only way to receive more.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'll get it from us. Let me tell you why I brought this up. Because the other day when I saw how hard it was for Mobe to go to the hospital to see her, I was embarrassed that I didn't know her better, that I ever laughed at one joke about her. I was embarrassed that I let some kid go to school with me for twelve years and turned my back on pain that must be unbearable. I was embarrassed that I haven't found a way to include her somehow the way Mobe has.'Jesus. I feel tears welling up, and I see them running down Ellerby's cheeks. Lemry better get a handle on this class before it turns into some kind of therapy group.So,' Lemry says quietly, 'your subject will be the juxtaposition of man and God in the universe?'Ellerby shakes his head. 'My subject will be shame.

~ Chris Crutcher

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?

~ Russ Scalzo

Holy communication, Holy life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest privileges:You are saved.You are a child of Most High God.You are co-heirs with Christ.You share in Christ suffering, life adversities.You share in Christ glory, strength of will and survival of life's difficulties.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.

~ Joel Osteen

If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly love their neighbor? Would they catch a grenade for one of us (like some of us would for them because we truly have love in our hearts)?

~ Solange Nicole

Mediation on the scriptures transforms our lives.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The scripture gives us timeless hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer.

~ Alan Heathcock

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

~ Kevin Deyoung

If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, “What version of Christ does he believe in?

~ Shannon L. Alder

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

~ Gary D. Schmidt