Christian Quotes

Self-struggle is spiritual.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

~ Jim George

[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

~ Samuel Rutherford

There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

~ Todd Neva

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

~ Arthur W. Pink

Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human experience that veil is made of living spiritual tissue; it is composed of the sentient, quivering stuff of which our whole beings consist, and to touch it is to touch us where we feel pain. To tear it away is to injure us, to hurt us and make us bleed. To say otherwise is to make the cross no cross and death no death at all. It is never fun to die. To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.

~ A.w. Tozer

One of my biggest problems in dealing with the breakdown of my body is that I keep looking in the wrong direction. I look to the past and the capabilities I once had, instead of looking to the future and what I will someday become in the presence and by the grace of God. Perhaps that is the strongest temptation for you too. Our culture reinforces that mistake by its refusal to talk about heaven, as if it were an old-fashioned and outdated notion. We also intensify the problem by craving present health (as limited as it can be) more than we desire God.A friend once said to me. This is so hard getting old—there are so many things we can‘t do any more. I guess the Lord wants to teach us something. Indeed, our bodies will never be what they previously were, and we find that difficult because we miss our former activities. But God wants to teach us to hunger for Him, our greatest treasure. Instead of rejecting the notion of heaven, we genuinely ache in our deepest self to fill that concept with a larger landscape of the Joy of basking in God‘s presence.

~ Marva J. Dawn

On feeling guilty about lack of 'productivity':In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment.--Marva Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill pg 137

~ Marva J. Dawn

Faith is the key to spiritual growth and requires a deep and personal connection with God. He wants to be the head of our hearts, king of our souls, and guide to our spirit. By allowing Him free reign in these areas we create an opportunity for lasting intimacy with the Creator. From intimacy comes confidence – in Him and in us.

~ Kristen Clark

Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans.

~ Elizabeth George

God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

~ Jim George

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

~ Francis Of Assisi

But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of a lover. The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. There never was a man in love who did not declare that, if he strained every nerve to breaking, he was going to have his desire. And there never was a man in love who did not declare also that he ought not to have it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Hope is firm belief.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hold fast to your faith.Keep your hope in the Lord.Embrace the love of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

~ Elizabeth George

John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me.Psalm 45:1My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

~ Tamara Sanguinetti

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

~ Mary E. Demuth

If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside.”~ Grace Madison, PhD.

~ N.l.b. Horton

I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type.~ Grace Madison, PhD.

~ N.l.b. Horton

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer's soul that gnaws and aches inside of them even unto gray manhood. It is the plague of horizons, the plague of the next river bend, the plague that drives men over the vast oceans into strange lands beyond the edges of the maps.

~ R.w. Schmidt

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious anger to tear down men of God.

~ Criss Jami

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

~ Criss Jami

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

~ Elizabeth George

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our case in His hands. He will as surely vindicate the cause of those who put their trust in Him as He searched out the guilt of Achan. Those who are actuated by the spirit of Christ will possess that charity which suffers long and is kind.

~ Ellen G. White

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

~ Elizabeth George

Pray for God’s grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

~ Elizabeth George

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

~ Jim George

Never forget what you were saved from.

~ Jim George

Law does, because God said so!; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.

~ D.r. Silva

...it is a mistake to reduce every decision about Christian living to a Heaven-or-Hell issue.For example, some ask if the Bible specifically says a certain action is a sin or will send them to Hell. If not, they feel free to indulge in that action unreservedly and ignore any scriptural principles involved. But this approach is legalistic, which means living by rules or basing salvation on works. It treats the Bible as a law book, focusing on the letter and looking for loopholes.By contrast, the Bible tells us that we are saved by grace through faith, not by our works (Ephesians 2:8-9). Grace teaches us how to live righteously, and faith leads us into obedience. (See Titus 2:11-12; Romans1:5; Hebrews 11:7-8.)

~ David K. Bernard

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...

~ Heather Bixler

Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian. What? Christian is singing softly to himself at the piano. Silence descends on us all as we strain to hear his soft, lyrical voice. I've heard him sing before, haven't they? He stops, suddenly conscious of the deathly hush that's fallen over the room. Kate glances questioningly at me and I shrug. Christian turns on the stool and frowns, embarrassed to realize he's become the center of attention.'Go on,' Grace urges softly. 'I've never heard you sing, Christian. Ever.

~ E.l. James

Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

~ Travis Thrasher

They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.

~ A.c. Williams

Daisies are perennials, they always grow back.

~ A.c. Williams

Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.

~ Jim George

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

~ Muse