Christianity Quotes

God is love. Love is of God. Whoever loves is of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

~ C.s. Lewis

Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.

~ René Girard

My fish dream is a sex dream.

~ Joseph Heller

In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honor everyone, and I have never been in a situation where I felt this instruction was inappropriate. When we accept dismissive judgements of our community we stop having generous hopes for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Knowing what we believe and why we believe it is not an option for the Christian, because as believers, OUR BELIEFS ARE THE VERY HEART OF WHO WE ARE.

~ Patty Houser

if you really want to understand the real fear of God, ponder over Joseph with Potiphar's wife in the secret place; think about Abraham on his arduous errand to sacrifice Isaac without the knowledge of Sarah ; understand the urgency Jesus Christ attached to His work and His eagerness to do His Fathers will; appreciate the courage with which Shadrach Meshach and Abednego stood against all odds and also remember Daniel in the Lions Den.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When we love God with our hearts in disproportion to our minds, our faith is out of kilter with the kind of faith God wants us to have.

~ Patty Houser

The secret to extraordinary faith is fully engaging our MINDS, as well as our hearts, because DYNAMIC FAITH REQUIRES A HEALTHY BALANCE OF BOTH.

~ Patty Houser

The evidence which we have of the great facts of the Bible history belongs to this class, that is, it is moral evidence; sufficient to satisfy any rational mind, by carrying it to the highest degree of moral certainty. If such evidence well justify the taking away of human life or liberty, in the one case, surely it ought to be deemed sufficient to determine our faith in the other.

~ Simon Greenleaf

But the Christian writer seems, by the usual course of the argument, to have been deprived of the common presumption of charity in his favor; and reversing the ordinary rule of administering justice in human tribunals, his testimony is unjustly presumed to be false, until it is proved to be true. ...{independent historians} have been treated, in the argument, almost as if the New Testament were the entire production, at once, of a body of men, conspiring by a joint fabrication, to impose a false religion upon the world.

~ Simon Greenleaf

There's a pattern in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced. Every human being is worthy of honor, but the conscious discipline of honor is learned from this setting apart of the mother and father, who usually labor and are heavy laden, and may be cranky or stingy or ignorant or overbearing. Believe me, I know this can be a hard Commandment to keep. But I believe also that the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object.

~ Marilynne Robinson

The Truth only offends those who live outside it.

~ Corey M.k. Hughes

In sorrow and in pain, still do remember your Master Jehovah; He can make things that do not matter, matter.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There are enough in the novelty business without us; and we have something better to do. We have to give an account unto our God of what we do and say, and if we have been murderers of souls, it will be no excuse that we flourished the dagger well, or that when we gave them poison we mixed the draught cleverly, and presented it with poetical phrases.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There's a patter in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced. Every human being is worthy of honor, but the conscious discipline of honor is learned from this setting apart of the mother and father, who usually labor and are heavy laden, and may be cranky or stingy or ignorant or overbearing. Believe me, I know this can be a hard Commandment to keep. But I believe also that the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object.

~ Marilynne Robinson

That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.

~ Marilynne Robinson

If I had had this experience earlier in life, I would have been much wiser, much more compassionate. I really didn't understand what it was that made people who came to me so indifferent to good judgement, to common sense, or why they would say I know, I know when I urged a little reasonableness on them, and why it meant It doesn't matter, I just don't care. That's what the saints and the martyrs say. And I know now that it is passion that moves them to their prodigal renunciations. I might seem to be comparing something great and holy with a minor and ordinary thing, that is, love of God with mortal love. But I just don't see them as separate things at all. If we can be divinely fed with a morsel and divinely blessed with a touch, then the terrible pleasure we find in a particular face can certainly instruct us in the nature of the very grandest love. I devoutly believe this to be true. I remember in those days loving God for the existence of love and being grateful to God for the existence of gratitude, right down in the depths of my misery. I realized many things that I am at a loss to express. And of course those feelings become milder with time, which is a mercy.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?

~ G.k. Chesterton

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

~ Okisha Jackson

Wisdom is the knowledge of the gospel truth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I know Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I taught I had to be good to walk with God. And God said, “My grace is what you need to walk with me, than you will be good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.

~ Bruce L. Shelley

Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God.

~ Undena Y. Leake Jackson

Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.

~ Spurgeon

God’s grace is our greatest need for every good deed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Desire to know God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I think of whisper, I think of tenderness, gentleness, beauty. And that was God's voice. The hard part with whispers, though, is we have to be listening for them. They are just loud enough that only the people listening will hear and those who are distracted won't.

~ Jefferson Bethke

Jesus Christ, a Nazarene, lived in Nazareth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His. Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)

~ Bishop Arnold Of Citeaux

May we uphold God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May the God richly bless humankind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God grant us grace for our daily work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My unchanging resolution is to read the Holy Scriptures every year.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The people come to Jesus, not because they recognized his dignity and function but because it is rumored that a miracle worker has come in their midst. Jesus had come to preach repentance and the nearness of the kingdom but the people think only of relief from pain and affliction.

~ William L. Lane

Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Walking in close fellowship with God is a spiritual self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita