Jesus Quotes

One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.

~ Stormie Omartian

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine prayer, is to make as much room as possible, in ourselves and in the world, for the kingdom of God, so that its energies can go to work. All that we can show our contemporaries of the reality of God springs from contemplation: Jesus Christ, the Church, our own selves.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.

~ Cyc Jouzy

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

~ Cyc Jouzy

Jesus is the perfect name!He who put away his fame!And persecuted in shame!That you will never be the same!It's because of you and I He came!Believe him or have yourself to blame!In the book of life, have your name!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You need God's direction before you can prosper in anything you do. However, it takes your choices to begin; it takes your passion to stay on; it also takes your integrity to finish it well!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

~ Mark Twain

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

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

~ Thomas Goodwin

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

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

~ Thomas Goodwin

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

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

~ Elizabeth George

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

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

~ Peter Kreeft

Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.

~ Dave Moore

We don’t read the Bible, the Bible reads us.

~ David Paul Kikrpatrick

God requires solitude and quiet – this is part of the way He instructs us to pray to Him. We are obligated through our Love to worship Him as He sees fit. This is not the law. This is the language of Love: we love Him in the way He chooses for us to Love Him.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Jesus walked to a solitary place to pray. He went somewhere and found a physical place. We must do the same, so the “going to”, and “the passing through” become a beautiful imitation of our Teacher as we seek to be like Him and be with Him. “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went off to a solitary place where he prayed.” (Mark 1:35)

~ David Paul Kikrpatrick

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark night of secret sin. Why should we not find it easier to go to a brother than to the holy God? But if we do, we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution...Who can give us the certainty that, in the confession and the forgiveness of our sins, we are not dealing with ourselves but with the living God? God gives us this certainty through our brother. Our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.

~ Todd Stocker

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

~ Louis Zamperini

True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My goal is to correct evil. I have to instruct these people on the right path.

~ Viktor Shel