Christian Quotes

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

~ Anonymous

These religious types were the fans that Jesus seems to have the most trouble with. Fans who will walk into a restaurant and bow their heads to pray before a meal just in case someone is watching. Fans who won’t go to R-rated movies at the theater, but have a number of them saved on their DVR at home. Fans who may feed the hungry and help the needy, and then they make sure they work it into every conversation for the next two weeks. Fans who make sure people see them put in their offering at church, but they haven’t considered reaching out to their neighbor who lost a job and can’t pay the bills. Fans who like seeing other people fail because in their minds it makes them look better. Fans whose primary concern in raising their children is what other people think. Fans who are reading this and assuming I’m describing someone else. Fans who have worn the mask for so long they have fooled even themselves.

~ Kyle Idleman

There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

~ Lisa Samson

Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian’s life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

~ Paul David Washer

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

God isn't looking for perfect people. He is looking to perfect people.

~ John Hileman

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science.

~ Frank Olvera

Jesus, do you always show up like this, at the craziest of times and in the oddest of places? I sure hope so.

~ Lisa Samson

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul.

~ Stevie Smith

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

~ Calvin Miller

The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.

~ Criss Jami

One thing is needful, to know and abide in the Lord Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good, a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.

~ C.s. Lewis

Life in Christ is like traveling on a metro link train, with a predetermined destination. You are not the driver, Jesus is, and God provided the route on this one time trip. He plotted everything, the date and the time of your travel and arrival. There will be stops and delays along the way, but remember this, at the bottom of a traffic light is always a green light.

~ Rolly Lavapie

As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it on, spun around in the mirror, and decided I would choose this look, this image, this identity. But eventually and without realising it, the ability to choose had gone. I had become what at first I had only pretended to be.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

The Holy Scripture is the truth of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Spirituality profits the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sin may appear good. But by God's commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The unspiritual is a slave to sin.…! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Holy Scriptures are words taught by the Spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The great mercy of God's grace is forgiveness for all sins.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The purpose of prayer is purification.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Scripture is like a sharp sword.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Rebirth is neither born of blood nor flesh or human origin. But born of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christianity is a sacred act of knowing the holy servant of God, Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The duty of a Christian is to obey Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Moreover, our certitudes were closely bound to a given set of symbols. Change the well defined Latin term for an undefined Greek one and every bishop and every priest found himself at a loss. We knew the catechism by heart; mention catechesis and we are no longer sure who made us and why. We could manage a dogmatic sermon all right but just listen to our homilies! We were absolutely firm about confession and contrition; all our firmness vanished at the one word METANOIA. We knew exactly what the Mass was; the Eucharist is hazy. Even the Consecration and the Real Presence have been engulfed in the mist of ANAMNESIS. All this is patently true, is undeniable. We had received a solid theological training in our seminaries. It did not stand the test. It collapsed overnight without leaving track or trace.

~ Bryan Houghton

The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God.

~ David Platt

Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The literal sense of the author was creation is the orderly act of a loving Creator God. What the modern reader often hears, however, is The universe was made in six 24-hour days. This is as wrong-headed as taking me to mean I actually stood in line a million years or that my cardiac tissue has been torn in half or that Christ had delusions of being a grape plant.-- Making Senses of Scripture

~ Mark Shea

A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.

~ Tim Muehlhoff

Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The beautiful thing about being a Christian is that you never have to allow all the garbage from the road behind you to get flung onto where you walk today. (Life Hacks, p.32

~ Jon Morrison