Christian Living Quotes

May your heart overflows with exceeding joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are so many things we do not appreciate in our life until we recognize God's love for us in them.

~ Stormie Omartian

Christ want to point this out and to warn His followers that in the world everyone should live as though he were alone and should consider His Word and preaching as the very greatest thing on earth, thinking this way to himself: “I see my neighbor and the whole city, and yes the whole world, living differently. All those who are great or noble or rich, the princes and the lords, are allied with it. Nevertheless I have an ally who is greater than all of them, namely, Christ and His Word. When I am all alone, therefore, I am still not alone. Because I have the Word of God, I have Christ with me, together with all the dear angels and all the saints since the beginning of the world. Actually there is a bigger crowd and a more glorious procession surrounding me than there could be in the whole world now. Only I cannot see it with my eyes, and I have to watch and bear the offense of having so many people forsake me or live and act in opposition to me.

~ Martin Luther

The Apostles used their voice not to change the current political situation, but to change the world forever by changing hearts

~ Jason Soroski

The Corinthians talked about spiritual things, but they did so in a fleshy and soulish way. The apostle Paul told them in the first book that they were fleshy and not spiritual (3:1), and in chapter 2 of the first book, he spoke of soulish men (v. 14). A spiritual man (v. 15) is one who does not behave according to the flesh or act according to the soulish life but lives according to the spirit, that is, his spirit (Rom. 1:9) mingled with the Spirit of God (8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17). Such a one is dominated, governed, directed, moved, and led by such a mingled spirit. Although the Corinthians spoke much about spiritual things, the apostle Paul designated them as fleshy and soulish. They were talking about spiritual things in the soul and in the flesh. Some may talk about the heavenly things in Ephesians, but they do so as Corinthians—in the soul or in the flesh.

~ Witness Lee

We need to be impressed with these words in verse [2 Cor. 1:]9—“we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God.” Through the redemption of Christ, the very God, who is in the heavens, has come into us, into our spirit (Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22). Thank the Lord that He is now in our spirit, calling us to forget about the soulish things and turn to our spirit to meet Him. We should no longer trust in our self, in our soul, but in God who is in our spirit.

~ Witness Lee

...Cast yourself upon, abandon yourself to this Christ who lived that life of utter surrender to God that He might prepare a new nature which He could impart to you and in which He might make you like Himself.

~ Andrew Murray

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

~ Jim George

The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day.

~ Elizabeth George

The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.

~ Jim George

God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

~ Elizabeth George

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Obedience to God’s Word begins by being determined to make no compromise with His ways. It requires a clear understanding that God’s rules and laws are for your benefit, and for you to do all you can to live by them.

~ Stormie Omartian

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

~ Jonathan Edwards

Fear is a scheme that the devil uses to great effect. From my personal study, the words “do not be afraid” or “fear thee not” (depending on the Bible translation) appear over one hundred times in the Bible! The message from God is quite clear: we need not be afraid!

~ Pedro Okoro

Slowly, but steadily, my feelings did start to change- feelings about myself as a woman and feelings about what sexuality really is and what it really isn't. I -like most everyone who identified as gay or lesbian -felt very comfortable, very at home in mu body in my lesbianism. One doesn't repent for a sin of identity in one session. Sins of identity have multiple dimensions, and throughout this journey, I have come to my pastor and his wife, friends in the Lord, and always to the Lord himself with different facets of my sin. I don't mean different incidents or examples of the same sin, but different facets of sin -how pride, for example, informed my decision-making, or how my unwillingness to forgive others had landlocked my heart in bitterness. I have walked this journey with help. There is no other way to do it I still walk this journey with help.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

We are not called to embody Jesus ourselves; He has already been incarnated and is still even now! No, we are not called to be Jesus; we are called to fall at His feet and worship Him. We are called to affirm that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. [John 1:14] And it is through this worship, through recognizing His rightful place, that we are finally humbled.When we are consumed with God's glory, we forget to worry about our own. When our eyes are fixed on Him as the source of all goodness and truth and beauty, we accept that we are not. When we are enamored by His worth and majesty, we can stop being so enamored with ourselves. And fascinatingly, when we seek God's glory, we'll be able to appreciate it in the people around us. Instead of seeing them as threats to our own glory, we will see them as beautiful reflections of His.

~ Hannah Anderson

Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Seek God's power and presence continually.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity or time of trouble is an opportunity to either fall or stand, fail or pass, faint or be strong. The choice is yours.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Daily Bible reading, path of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible, Holy writings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There can be no substitute for a personal study of the Word of God! Daily devotionals, Bible commentaries, and recorded messages by anointed preachers and teachers are wonderful and useful. However, they cannot take the place of the Word of God. They must not replace a time of personal study of the Word. Every Christian individual must study and meditate upon the Word for him or herself. Nobody can do that for anyone else.

~ Pedro Okoro

By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, anybody who is afflicted by any phobia can be set free.

~ Pedro Okoro

I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it.

~ Heather Blanton

God doesn't want to be a mystery to us, God wants to be known.

~ Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe

Brotherly love is Godly love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

~ Maralee Mckee

We will find our sacred-path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

~ Paul David Tripp

Because of our selfishness and inclination toward personal comfort and convenience, we'd rather not have to deal with constant change and uncertainty. We have difficulty reconciling the goodness of God with the mystery of his ways.

~ Chris Hodges

How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?The answer came in a question, Ruby.God, in reply, asked, How can you?

~ Lisa Wingate

A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home.

~ Elizabeth George

The unspiritual is a slave to sin.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The desires of the flesh leads to sin.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We stumble in sin, when we fail to read the scriptures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves’ from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

~ John Chrysostom

Possibility is miraculous.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

~ Elizabeth George

We shall face many troubles. But the Lord shall deliver us from each one of them.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita