Christian Living Quotes

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

~ John Owen

But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. 1 Peter 3:15

~ Anonymous

Salvation is the work of God planned in eternity, communicated by the prophets in the Old Testament and fulfilled in Christ; all of which the apostles bear witness to and the angels long to look into these things.

~ Jonah Books.com

A proper distribution of weight allows equality on each support.

~ Jonah Books.com

We need to touch the fountain of life to draw in living lasting strength.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.

~ Ann Voskamp

Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don't fully see that in Christ, because of Christ, through Christ, He does give us all things good - until we have the perspective of years.In time, years, dust settles.In memory, ages, God emerges.

~ Ann Voskamp

Thank you for reminding me that the future is in God's hands.' 'You're welcome. And remember, wherever you go, in body and mind, you simply need to call out to God and He is there

~ Tricia Goyer

Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.

~ Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am blessed. I can bless. Imagine! I could let Him make me the gift! I could be the joy!

~ Ann Voskamp

When it gets dark, it's only because god has tucked me in a cleft of the rock and covered me, protected, with His hand? In the pitch, I feel like I'm falling, sense the bridge giving way, God long absent. In the dark, the bridge and my world shakes, cracking dreams.But maybe this is true reality: It is in the dark that God is passing by. the bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us, I-beam supporting in earthquake.

~ Ann Voskamp

God holds us in the untamed moments too.

~ Ann Voskamp

Who trusts the Bridge Builder when you wake to snow on your blankets and winter blasting through cracked walls and dinner for four is a fifty cent box of Kraft Dinner rationed in half and your dad tells you every single day that he just doesn't know how there is ever going to be enough?How do you count on life when the hopes don't add up?A morning in late November, joy shimmers.The hopes don't have to add up. The blessings do....count blessings and discover who can be counted on.

~ Ann Voskamp

When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the centre of things, he becomes the storm-centre of trouble. The moment you think of serving people, you begin to have a notion that other people owe you something for your pains... You will begin to bargain for reward, to angle for applause.'When the laundry is for the dozen arms of children or the dozen legs, it's true, I think I'm due some appreciation. So comes a storm of trouble and lightning strikes joy. But when Christ is center, when dishes, laundry, work, is my song of thanks to Him, joy rains. Passionately serving Christ alone makes us the loving servant to all. When the eyes of the heart focus on God, and the hands on always washing the feet of Jesus alone - the bones, they sing joy, and the work returns to it's purest state: eucharisteo. The work becomes worship, a liturgy of thankfulness.

~ Ann Voskamp

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.

~ Ann Voskamp

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

~ Ann Voskamp

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

~ Ann Voskamp

learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on rampage in your life

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

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~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..)

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

The phrase 'Love one another' is so wise. By loving one another, we invest in each other and in ourselves. Perhaps someday, when we need someone to care for us, it may not come from the person we expect, but from the person we least expect. It may be our sons or daughter-in-laws, our neighbors, friends, cousins, stepchildren, or stepparents whose love for us has assigned them to the honorable, yet dangerous position of caregiver.

~ Peggi Speers

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.

~ Jonathan Edwards

When we ask we are owning our needs. Asking for love, comfort or understanding is a transaction between two people. You are saying: I have a need. It's not your problem. It's not your responsibility. You don't have to respond, but I'd like something from you. This frees the other person to connect with you freely and without obligation. When we own that our needs are our responsibility we allow others to love us because we have something to offer. Asking is a far cry from demanding. When we demand love, we destroy it.

~ Henry Cloud

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.

~ Andrew Stephen Damick

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

~ Thomas Brooks

When we find out Who He (Jesus) is, then we find out who we are and it forever settles what we believe.

~ Yvette R. Dempster

It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian.

~ Seraphim Rose

Truth has a certain sound to it. Your spirit will hear it clearly and leap inside of you and you will feel hope, even if your mind is still wrestling with all the pieces.

~ Yvette R. Dempster

When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!

~ Raphael Ben Levi

I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are.

~ Yvette R. Dempster

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

~ Max Lucado

I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.

~ Katie J. Davis

Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.

~ Max Lucado

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

~ Sarah Mally

If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

~ Paul David Tripp

Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.

~ Ricky Maye

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

~ Elisabeth Elliot