Christian Living Quotes

Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

~ Sarah Mally

Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your words and deeds are seeds, scattered in the wind... the seeds are light or darkness... they'll break apart or mend... Sow light instead of gloom. Sow faith instead of doubt. Sow truth and love, and hope, and peace. Sow light and darkness rout.

~ Colleen Luntzel

Admire your offenders for they are never your offenders. They are only teachers in the class of forgiveness, tolerance and patience. How can you learn how to forgive when you have not been offended? How can you learn how to forgive seventy seven times seven when people have not offended you seventy seven times? Smile if you get offended, there is a lessons to learn!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Go to church and get directions so you won’t get lost.

~ Elizabeth B. Knaus

May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church is the embassy of the eschaton in the world. The church is the image of what the world is in its essential being. The Church is the trustee of the society which the world, not subjected to the power of death, is to be on that last day when the world is fulfilled in all things in God.

~ William Stringfellow

Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defined a community as “a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church: Why Bother?)

~ Philip Yancey

The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.

~ Agona Apell

Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.

~ Oscar A. Romero

Many of us who have found ourselves to be useful in Christian service have found ourselves unable, if we're honest, to connect with God in any other way, We do for him, instead of being with him. We become soldiers, instead of brothers and sisters and daughters and sons. This is dangerous, damaging territory, and I've spent to much time there.

~ Shauna Niequist

God is great.God is amazing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. How often I think of that 'ought.' No sugary sentiment there. Just the stern, glorious trumpet call, OUGHT. But can words tell the joy buried deep within? Mine cannot. It laughs at words.

~ Amy Carmichael

Your Sacrifices Create The Run Way For Your Blessings, It Has To Be A Sacrifice From You To Attract God's Attention

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is humbly longing to know the Father’s will.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Heavenly Father, thank you for the blessing that you bestow upon me daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more I pray, the more I feel God's comfort.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not worry about your needs. God knows your every need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God's grace is seed of salvation via faith in Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Most people spend their entire lives just trying to live life, when all the time we should be trying to find the One Who Holds the Key to True Life (Jesus Christ).

~ Nicole C. Calhoun

Jesus' tomb wasn't His grave, but our door.

~ Patricia Raybon

Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

~ Edmond Sanganyado

God's grace will not take you where it cannot keep you.

~ Edmond Sanganyado

How wonderful it is being a sheep in the flock of God. Our shepherd is the one that created the grass that we need for pasture, He is the one that created the rivers and the waters, He is the one who holds everything in His hand and He is my Shepherd.

~ Edmond Sanganyado

The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11

~ David Platt

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

~ John Piper

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

~ Alvin Plantinga

I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I'll tell you what deflates my arrogance and self-righteousness faster than anything else: trying to live whatever truth I have.

~ Joshua Harris

Let men position you in the den, God will make you a Daniel in the den. Let men position you to face Goliath, God will make you a David. Let men subject you to undue pressure, torture and pain, blindfold you and lead you into the dungeon, God will make you a Samson there! Let men sell you into indentured servitude, God will make you Joseph. Let men build a death trap for you, God shall turn it into the days of Mordecai and Haman and you shall only see with your eyes the destruction of evil conspirators who would never repent! Let all odds be against you, God will make you Job. And when though fear grips your heart because of the storm you see, God will empower you and make you more than Peter. Stay hopeful! Trust in God!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

~ Patricia Amis

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

~ Stephen Davey

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

~ Stephen Davey

[Mary] says her memories Will help those of usNewly come to our Lord’s mercy,To live in His light.

~ Jessica Coupé

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was there too, like a broken flower, a wounded thing. But foremost among all-God pity her!-was His own mother. Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Lord, speak not what I am wanting to hear, but speak what you want to say. For what you say, is truly what I need to hear.

~ Elias Tan Js