Christianity Quotes

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn’t think to stop it?

~ Geoffrey Wood

Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

~ Rousas John Rushdoony

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience over a farmhouse table or a cup of wine in a workingman's kitchen. They talked with equal familiarity to the rough-tongued whores of Trastevere and the polished signori of Parioli. They enjoyed the ribald humor of the fish market as much as the wit of a Cardinal's dinner table. They were good priests too, and they did much good for their people, with a singular satisfaction to themselves.

~ Morris West

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sacrifice of love.

~ Elizabeth George

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.

~ Geoffrey Wood

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with the Professor Challenger stories, when the bull-necked old professor became a convert to Spiritualistm; it was not that Richard had any problems believing in ghosts - Richard believed, with no problems or contradictions, in everything - but Conan Doyle was preaching, and it showed through the words. Richard was young, and innoncent in his fashion, and believed that authors should be trusted, and that there should be nothing hidden beneath the surface of a story.

~ Neil Gaiman

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Looking at your day from a “golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.

~ Elizabeth George

The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.

~ Marcus J. Borg

Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance…That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.

~ Evelyn Waugh

They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they’re quick to trot out their most cherished document and point to where they were promised “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But you’ll find that though they all parrot that little phrase, they think none too hard about that word “pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a feeling of entitlement for happiness, then make the leap that happiness should, therefore, be easily won, automatic. There’s too much wrong in there to even scratch at that!

~ Geoffrey Wood

Christianity was derailed when Bible Schools became certification centers for true apostles of Christ. Where is the Holy Spirit? John 16:13

~ Felix Wantang

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.

~ Chris Hodges

Heaven is closer and more real than anything we experience in this life. And ultimately, I think that's why I've seen these glimpses---I'm always on the lookout for them. I believe if you look closely, you can clearly experience them too.

~ Reggie Anderson

There are some things that you experience with God that you'll never be able to articulate this side of heaven.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures--now that would have gotten his attention.

~ Randy Alcorn

In that day every trial borne in patience will be pleasing and the voice of iniquity will be stilled, the devout will be glad, the irreligious will mourn, and the mortified body will rejoice far more than if it had been pampered with every pleasure. Then the cheap garment will shine with splendor and the rich one become faded and worn, the poor cottage will be more praised than the gilded palace. In that day persevering patience will count more than all the power in this world, simple obedience will be exalted above all worldly cleverness, a good and clean conscience will gladden the heart of man far more than the philosophy of the learned, and contempt for riches will be of more weight than every treasure on earth.

~ Thomas À Kempis

What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.

~ J.i. Packer

Worship must occupy us full-time for a lifetime because our final destination is Heaven—it’s no place for part-time lovers!

~ Gangai Victor

The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.

~ David Servant

I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.

~ Geoffrey Wood

As a rule, Americans are big on that word “choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

~ Geoffrey Wood

To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.

~ Sarah Arthur

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its usefulness and cannot relate anymore to changed times and people.

~ Bhaskarananda

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us, it is an entity in itself.

~ Holly Sprink