Christian Quotes

The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.

~ D.r. Silva

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

~ D.r. Silva

The original Christians regarded the deposit of faith, as finally inseparable from the very living substance of the Gospel in the saving event of Christ crucified, risen and glorified, but as once and for all entrusted to the church through its apostolic foundation in Christ, informing, structuring and quickening its life and faith and mission as the body of Christ in the world... While the deposit of faith was replete with the truth as it is in Jesus, embodying kerygmatic, didactic and theological content, but its very nature it could not be resolved into a system of truths or set of normative doctrines and formulated beliefs, for the truths and doctrines and beliefs entailed could not be abstracted from the embodied form which they were given in Christ in the apostolic foundation of the church without loss of their real substance. Nevertheless in this embodied form the faith once for all delivered to the saints constituted the regulative basis for all explicit formulation of Christian truth, doctrine and belief in the deepening understanding of the church and its regular instruction of catechumens and the faithful. app is

~ Thomas F. Torrance

Speak it till you reach it!

~ Michelle Cook-Hall

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

~ Keri Wyatt Kent

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.

~ Jim George

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

~ Elizabeth George

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

~ Charles J. Chaput

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~ Fran Elizabeth Grubb

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

~ Elizabeth George

It is the ego's purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet events. I did this next and this happened, then I went there. That is the way it is talked about when the mind believes in sequential time and events. But once we get a sense that there is purpose that ties them all together, that is when the fusion between all the events takes place.

~ David Hoffmeister

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?

~ Brandon Andress

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

~ Jim George

Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.

~ John H. Walton

With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a spiritualized form of situational ethics and a Christianly submissive statism.

~ Greg L. Bahnsen

The Flight of Providence To do what is right, we tryAgainst the odds, we tryYou are not like us, they sayStand downWe fight, and only God knowsFor our right to existFor the truthWe are manifest for this hourWe will not be silentYou are not like us, they sayStand downWe fight, and only God knowsFor our right to tryFor our right to knowWe are the human raceWe will not be silentYou are not like us, they sayStand downWe fight, and only God knowsFor the truthFor our futureWe are brilliant shades of lightWe cannot be contained

~ David C. Riggins

I still wanted to go home, but had to enter the tunnel and pray for the best. Every day, I discovered more disadvantages to being a strong woman, although the past week made me feel like Hercules in a burkha.-Grace Madison, PhD

~ N.l.b. Horton

Bold courage is paralyzing fear after humble prayer.

~ Kenneth E. Nowell

You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.

~ Beyers Naudé

If you seek the presence of God, you will see the glory of God:

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Existence of mankind, the glory of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.

~ Beverly S. Harless

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

~ Ron Brackin

He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for.

~ Stephanie Landsem

Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

On one occasion, he said The Son of man [referring to himself] must be killed, and on the 3rd day be raised to life. Peter, in particular, would have no part in such talk, and (can you believe?) he actually took Jesus aside and rebuked him, Jesus, the only begotten Son of God! How would God ever use an obstinate man like this to proclaim the gospel?

~ Marty Engel

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

~ Matthew Henry

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

No cross, no Christian

~ Daniel Deutschlander

Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.

~ Elder Porphyrios

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.

~ Leslie G Nelson

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

~ Jim George

Love is often confused with attraction. Love is an action, it’s a choice. We can choose to love someone. Attraction, however, is a feeling, it’s an emotion, it’s temporary.

~ Cole Ryan