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- Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God…
- A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and…
- The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
- All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
- God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
- To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
- What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian…
- Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small…
- Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
- The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live…
- The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today…
- It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian…
- To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but…
- The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate…
- Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever…
- The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
- It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became…
- The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians,…
- Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and…
- What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
- The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
- Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
- The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul,…
- The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The…
- We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms,…
More Christian Quotes
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar