Quotes on Christian

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.