Christianity Quotes

I had long since wished that they would have been born with a dictionary sized how-to guide in my placenta. It would have been custom printed for each child by God. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I’d been forced to walk through the minefield of parenthood feeling like I was blindfolded and hopping on one leg. Surely my kids should understand that I was trying to know what I was doing, but the verdict still seemed out at the moment.

~ Anna Aquino

An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge, I knew she was going to be diving right into a pool of tragedy.

~ Anna Aquino

Father is pleased with your progress. You humans are all the same you know. You’re always refusing just to enjoy the moment you’re in when you don’t understand things. You know just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. Father gave you all this for a gift. Have fun a little. You are at a royal affair. Maybe you should lighten up.” Really? My life was on hold and an angel was complaining to me that I needed to kick back and relax. Did an angel just tell me to lighten up?

~ Anna Aquino

I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.

~ Anna Aquino

Perhaps we could fool them, but Bathsheba was entering into a place I couldn’t help her. It was a dark place filled with the result of one night of bad choices. I could feel it beginning to erupt. It was as if Bathsheba had been sitting on a mountain and like a volcano it was getting ready to explode.

~ Anna Aquino

Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I’d been wrong, but that didn’t soften the blow.

~ Anna Aquino

Time and time again, I find I cannot skip the night to arrive to the morning. Joy comes in the morning, but the morning comes after the dark night. Sometimes the night lasts longer than we want it to.

~ Natalie Brenner

Christians need to set the example with their words. Christians should think twice about the negative things that they say and not hesitate to say something positive.

~ Rob Shepherd

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

~ Henri Nouwen

Jennifer was good at her job and loved it. However, I hated the fact she was forced on me. She was young, beautiful, and thin. Everything I never felt that I was, and she always insisted on wearing heels and cute little suits in the office. Really? Who had such bionic feet that they could wear those day in and day out. My attitude toward her bordered on civil with a touch of sarcasm. I was sure she had stories to tell the women in the church on how hard I was to work with. I told myself I didn’t care. I’d wear flip-flops and flats at my desk and sequester all shoes over a two-inch heel to be worn only on Sundays.

~ Anna Aquino

The Holy Spirit teaches the Truth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Great law is God's commandment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The purpose of prayer is purification.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To pray is to make petition.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Scripture is like a sharp sword.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

True Christianity is obedience to Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Gospel of glad tidings is the power of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.

~ J.adam Snyder

God the Creator has become God the Father

~ Gladstone Manganoori

Never stop studying the Holy Scriptures .

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The duty of a Christian is to obey Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus came emotional and raw, scandalously gracious. I want to be like Him.

~ Natalie Brenner

In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

~ Natalie Brenner

Generations to generations, you are God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any case, all the ovens in the world can’t incinerate desire.

~ David Burr Gerrard

The Teacher of the Truth trains in righteousness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we ask God to draw near, what we're really asking is for Him to make us aware of Him.

~ Mike Donehey

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

~ Florence Nightingale

God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

How we understand the person and character of God the Father affects every aspect of our lives. It affects far more than what we normally call the religious aspect of our lives. If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. His Holy character has something to say about economics, politics, athletics, romance - everything with which we are involved.

~ R.c. Sproul

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

Christians must focus on Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no danger than doubt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Is it right for people to critique others for their supposed un-Christian attitudes by themselves being un-Christian?

~ James Martin

All Christians have access to the spiritual riches found in the Scriptures, which, after all, were written amid the spiritual turmoil and social conflicts of the writers’ times. We can learn from those who went before us.

~ James Martin

I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.

~ Yann Martel

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him'.

~ N. T. Wright

Missiologists have in recent years begun to think seriously about inculturation, and historians have begun to learn from them. When the Christian message is inserted into a cultural framework, if the messengers are insensitive to the local culture the result can be cultural imperialism. On the other hand, if they grant too much hegemony to the local culture, the result at best is 'syncretism' and at worst 'Christo-paganism.' Things are most wholesome when sensitive interchange takes place leading to 'a truly critical symbiosis.' But for this to happen, there must be a second stage - a time of 'pastoral follow-up work,' of catechizing and life formation enabling the new faith to express its genius in the institutions and reflexes of its new host culture.

~ Alan Kreider