Christian Living Quotes

Christ who is your life,' (Col 3:4): This identification reflects the relentless Christological focus of Colossians.

~ Douglas J. Moo

We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.

~ Jim Cymbala

Hope is alive when u know your anchor

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

~ Francis Chan

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

~ Barbara Cameron

He said Love...as I have loved you. We cannot love too much.

~ Amy Carmichael

Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.

~ Amy Carmichael

His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.

~ Joseph Prince

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

~ C.s. Lewis

Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the Rock-counsciousness of the promise given her, He goeth before.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

~ Oswald Chambers

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

~ John Piper

[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a single eye for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.

~ Suzanne Woods Fisher

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

~ A.w. Tozer

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

~ Francis Chan

Strength of my heart, I need not fail,Not mind to fear but to obey,With such a Leader, who could quail?Thou art as Thou wert yesterday.Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee,Fulfil Thy purposes through me.

~ Amy Carmichael

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

~ Barbara Cameron

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

~ A.w. Tozer

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.

~ Wanda E. Brunstetter

If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

~ Amy Carmichael

One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.

~ Deborah Brown

If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them.

~ Meg Moseley

I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

~ Sara Evans

As I stumble through this lifehelp me to create more laughter than tears, dispense more cheer than gloom, spread more joy than despair. Never let me become so indifferent that I will fail to see the wonder in the eyes of a child, or the twinkle in the eyes of the aged. Never let me forget that my total effort is to cheer people, make them happy, and forget momentarily all the unpleasantness in their lives. And in my final moment, may I hear You whisper, 'When you made My people smile, you made Me smile.

~ Nancy Mehl

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

~ Serena B. Miller

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

~ Mindy Starns Clark

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

~ Francis Chan

We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

~ A.w. Tozer

Jesus first, others next, and yourself last spells J-O-Y.

~ Linda Byler

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

~ John Green

Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is savage and selfish. Love without respect is short-lived. Love without these conditions is without God.

~ David W. Stevens

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of learned helplessness without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of learned blindness ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

~ John Green

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

~ Amy Carmichael

The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say--with every fresh need has come a fresh supply.

~ Amy Carmichael

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

~ Amy Carmichael

Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above. However the man may protest, the proof is in the choice he makes day after day throughout his life.

~ A.w. Tozer

Encourage others each and every day–nothing’s more important than our words.Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn’t have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God’s intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

~ C.j. Mahaney

Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.

~ Nancy Missler

And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.

~ Sibella Giorello