Christianity Quotes

Through dreams, God awakened me; through prayers, God directed me.

~ Teresa Odden

No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we are, must wait until we ask for them, that we may know whence they come: when in all gifts we find Him, then in Him we shall find all things.

~ George Macdonald

It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

~ Stormie Omartian

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

~ Stormie Omartian

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you’re not afraid of the dark.

~ Stormie Omartian

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

~ Stormie Omartian

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

~ Stormie Omartian

The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.

~ Stormie Omartian

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.

~ Stormie Omartian

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

~ Stormie Omartian

Praying is not telling God what to do. It’s trusting that God knows what to do.

~ Stormie Omartian

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

~ Stormie Omartian

The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about.

~ Stormie Omartian

People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.

~ Stormie Omartian

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.

~ Stormie Omartian

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.

~ Stormie Omartian

When we say to people, 'I will pray for you,' we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern. But when we learn to descend with our mind into our heart, then all those who have become part of our lives are led into the healing presence of God and touched by him in the center of our being. We are speaking here about a mystery for which words are inadequate. It is the mystery that the heart, which is the center of our being, is transformed by God into his own heart, a heart large enough to embrace the entire universe. Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness, and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.

~ Rick Hamlin

There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh will tell you that God is against you, that you have gone too far and that He is no longer interested in you. But faith defies the flesh. It contradicts Satan’s lies. It rises up against defeat, gloom, and despair and finds hope in God.

~ Colin S. Smith

Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about my comfort, my reputation, and my success than I do about the people You are calling me to serve. Help me to keep all of my dreams on Your altar and be ready at all times to respond with faith and obedience to Your call.

~ Colin S. Smith

Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE.

~ Cyc Jouzy

Do You Know That By Just Saying I WANNA DIE Or I WISH I COULD DIE ...God Can Answer That Prayer???You Will Be Cancelled In The Book Of Life And At Heaven You Will Be Dead, But You Will Just Be Walking On Earth Waiting To Go To Hell. Thats What Most People Call HELL OF A LIFE... A Life Of Someone Who Is Not Written In The Book Of Life.So People Stop Playing With Those Words.And If You Once Said That, PRAY TONIGHT SO THAT GOD RE-WRITES YOU IN THE BOOK OF LIFE.

~ Cyc Jouzy

By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance--all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us--lavishly.

~ Beth Moore

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

~ Elizabeth George

The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit (i.e. in the name of 'evangelical liberty'). We claim liberty from all legal compulsion, from self-martyrdom and mortification, and play this off against the proper evangelical use of discipline and asceticism; we thus excuse our self-indulgence and irregularity in prayer, in meditation and in our bodily life. But the contrast between our behavior and the word of Jesus is all too painfully evident. We forget that discipleship means estrangement from the world, and we forget the real joy and freedom which are the outcome of a devout rule of life. As soon as a Christian recognizes that he has failed in his service, that his readiness has become feeble, and that he has sinned against another's life and become guilty of another's guilt, that all his joy in God has vanished and that his capacity for prayer has quite gone, it is high time for him to launch an assault upon the flesh, and prepare for better service by fasting and prayer (Luke 2:37; 4:2: Mark 9:29; 1 Cor. 7:5).

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating.You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

~ Steven Furtick

They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

~ Flannery O'connor

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen, to pray is to see and breathe.

~ Gangai Victor

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, Hello.

~ Stormie Omartian

The more of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth—a carrot on a stick, if you will.

~ D.r. Silva

Choose God, his word, prayer, and spiritual vitamins. As you fight the battle with these tools, you will also be simultaneously choosing your victory.

~ Tracie Miles

May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.

~ Katie Kiesler

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

~ J.d. Greear

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the words are empty - dry gourds rattling in the silence. The dark is terrible and I feel so alone. I see no signs but the symbols of contradiction. I try to dispose myself to faith, hope and charity, but my will is a blown reed in the winds of despair.

~ Morris West

Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.

~ Jonathon Acuff

…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes – well, maybe seven. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their failure, blaming themselves. Does this sound familiar? (pp. 14/Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?)

~ Philip Yancey

Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

Praying because you're afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and still feel scared, it's whether you're not praying right or not praying at all.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

~ John Piper