Christian Life Quotes

What I have always found amazing is that God can use our bad choices to still get us right where He intended us to be.

~ Adam Gellert

God already has our life plan plotted out with exacting precision and perfect timing, and sometimes we have to be patient in order to see God's promises come to pass.

~ Adam Gellert

The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

~ E. Stanley Jones

In the New Testament, God's steadfast love and faithfulness are seen, not in an act of deliverance from foreign enemies, but in sending the Son and raising Him from the dead to enact a global rescue mission (Romans 8:3.) Jesus is God's supreme, grand, climactic act of faithfulness. Not only that, but faithful also describes Jesus. Paul writes, We know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but in faith in Jesus Christ (Galations 2:16...). A better reading is faithfulness of Jesus Christ -- which is found in footnotes of many Bibles -- and the two readings couldn't be more different... Paul isn't saying, You are not justified by your efforts but by your faith. The contrast he's making isn't between two options we have; the contrast is between your efforts and Jesus' faithfulness to you, shown in His obedient death on a Roman cross. Paul is interested in telling readers what Jesus did, Jesus' faithfulness, not what we do. God's grand act of faithfulness is giving His son for our sake. God is all in. Jesus' grand act of faithfulness is going through with it for our sake. Jesus is all in. Now it's our move, which really is the point of all this. Like God the Father and God the Son, we are also called to be faithful. On one level, we are faithful to God when we trust God, but faith (pistis) doesn't stop there. It extends, as we've seen, in faithfulness toward each other, in humility and self-sacrificial love. And here is the real kick in the pants: When we are faithful to each other like this, we are more than simply being nice and kind -- though there's that. Far more important, when we are faithful to each other, we are, at that moment, acting like the faithful God and the faithful Son. Being like God. That's the goal. And we are most like God, not when we are certain we are right about God, or when we tell others how right we are, but when we are acting toward one another like the faithful Father and Son. Humility, love, and kindness are our grand acts of faithfulness and how we show that we are all in.

~ Peter Enns

sometimes it is when we feel the most helpless, and the most alone, that we are actually the closest to knowing our true nature.

~ Allison D. Reid

The Scars come before the Stars.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Deep despair, dear Lord, deep despairMy heart yearns to be your heirBut my prayer remains unheardSpeak to me that I may hearAnd I will know that you can hearDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus , deep despair !Deep despair, dear Lord, deep despairYour voice I wait to hearYour presence I seek to be nearThat I may not live with fearAnd I will always be your heirDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair! Deep despair, dear Lord , deep despairWhen expectations become desperationMay your might be my light That I may see you as my guideAnd do all things in your mightDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair !Deep despair, dear Lord , deep despairMay I know who You really areThat I may know who I am really areAs I stand between my me and where I want to beIn a world that seeks hinder all I have to be Deep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair!Deep despair, dear Lord, deep despairWhen all hope is goneAnd all I have leave my handsMay I smile for what you have doneAs You overcome condemnation with redemptionDeep despair, dear Lord Jesus, deep despair!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Choose a man who loves God more than he loves you. If he loves you more than he loves God you'll never be enough because no one and nothing can ever satisfy a man's soul but God himself.

~ Mei Jancorda

I cannot help but believe that we are meant for something, Elowyn, something greater than we know. Perhaps greater than we will ever know.

~ Allison D. Reid

Perhaps too, it is innocence that allows the young to hear Aviad more clearly when he calls, and encourages their hearts to follow Him, even when they do not recognize His voice for what it is.

~ Allison D. Reid

It takes One... to know One...

~ Michael William Angeloh

Obedience requires knowing God’s word, His expectations and then actually living them out.

~ Sara Dormon

From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.

~ Iain H. Murray

In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the place of the true God. Idols cause us to ignore the true God in search of what we think we need.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the image is marred, but it is a divine image nonetheless, capable of redemption and therefore to be held in honor.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Wonders and signs are miracles of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

my whole authorship pertains to Christianity, to the issue: becoming a Christian, with direct and indirect polemical aim at that enormous illusion, Christendom-- Soren Kierkegaard The Point of View for My Work as an Author, (The Single Individual)

~ Soren Kierkagaard

The problem is not just the wrong ormistake that you did but the correction,/right you refused to do.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.

~ William Jay

God works by means; and it is by his people that he principally carries on his cause in the world. They are his witnesses. They are his servants. He first makes them the subjects of his grace, and then the mediums. He first turns them from rebels into friends, and then employs them to go and beseech others to be reconciled unto God. For they know the wretchedness of a state of alienation from him. They know the blessedness of a return. They have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Their own experience gives them earnestness and confidence in saying to those around them, O taste, and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

~ William Jay

I surrender my life to the Saviour, Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Expect much more from God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred jar of oil shall never run out.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We only fear due to lack of faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To my dear daughters, granddaughters, and all future brides, I thought it would be a wonderful tradition for each bride to write a little note and leave a legacy for those who come after her. How I wish my own mother had lived to see my wedding day and been present to share her wisdom!I make no pretense at being wise, but God is. The bible says we can ask for wisdom, and God will honor our request. As you consider marriage, first seek God's will and ask Him to direct your heart. Do not hasten to take your vows. Pause and reflect before you take such a momentous step, and be sure your mate honors God. A marriage is not just between a man and a woman--it is a holy union which must include the Lord to flourish.Ethan was God's gift to me. His patience, strength, and companionship were like a balm to my grief. We learned to work together and rely on one another until respect and affection sparked. Love came softly and grew in our hearts. How I thank God for bringing us together and blessing our union!Though hardships test us and extraordinary things thrill us, life is made up of mundane days. Love each other in the little, commonplace matters of life to strengthen your marriage, or it will wither from neglect. Appreciate what you have, and forgive as freely as you laugh.My darlings, my prayer is for you to make wise decisions of the heart--first in devoting your spirit to the Lord, then in giving your hand to a man. May each of you be blessed with a godly mate and know the joy of growing close together and growing old with him.

~ Cathy Marie Hake

We even do not know what we have.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Make sure you stand firm on the solid rock.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of giving is beyond measure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred preacher woman, Lailah Gifty Akita.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Confident hope is the faith of existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The truth shall your soul free.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God will never forsake you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be at peace with your soul and any other souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am reminded of that irregular preacher at home who was accused of wandering from his subject. He replied that, whether he stuck to his subject or not, he thanked God that he stuck to his object, which was to bring men to Christ. I hope I shall never lose sight of that.

~ Geraldine Taylor

If your heart is pure, you block any harm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord God knows exact when to act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita