Quotes on Christian

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.

In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.

Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism.

If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!