Quotes about christianity

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.

Reputation is made in a moment Character is built over a lifetime.

Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life what's really perplexing is that He suffered in our place. Why did the innocent One suffer for our sins?

Great soul start and end your day with God.

A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!

Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Faith is where they learn about their God but Prayer is where they explore Him.

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen to pray is to see and breathe.

Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith the latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice the latter a virtue.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within the former raged against him.

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

Jan van Leyden announced that a new world order [anabaptism] had been revealed to him and promptly began to implement it. Money was abolished polygamy was legalized marriage was made compulsory for women. Those who dissented faced execution.

But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning from their relationship to God.

True Christianity finds all of its doctrines in the Bible true Christianity does not deny any part of the Bible true Christianity does not add anything to the Bible. For many centuries the Bible has been the most available book on the earth. It has no hidden purpose. It cannot be destroyed.

Time’s violence rends the soul by the rent eternity enters.

Waiting is not always a bad thing it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

God is an early bird satan is a night owl. Everyone knows that.

You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want is offered by and found in Him.

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy it is the negation of Christianity.

Holy Scriptures the precious promise of God.

This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while often enabling the believer to squander this life as somehow less important.

This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one untrained in their methods can really understand anything the Bible says. We are in a situation analogous to one about which the great Reformers complained. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the layperson it has now become the professional property not of the priesthood but of the

So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

Truth has a certain sound to it. Your spirit will hear it clearly and leap inside of you and you will feel hope even if your mind is still wrestling with all the pieces.

Don't bring Hollywood bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.

If each hair on our head is accounted for then wouldn't even the smallest of prayers matter?

Bombs have kill-radiuses churches should have love-radiuses--anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

You need something more than just the scientific method to explain the world in which we live. Beware of false dichotomies (either/or situations) that proponents of scientism assume. You should never have to choose whether or not you believe in either a plane’s engine or gravity. You can have both. You shouldn’t have to accept the existence of Steve Jobs or the iPhone nor should you have to decide whether you believe in God or science. Those who insist that scientific discoveries disprove God ar

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross he waited until one of them turned to him.

the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that I have failed to do God’s work. The government cannot take the place of Christian charity. A loving embrace isn’t given with food stamps. The care of a community isn’t provi

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

I do not know why sorrows come and burning teardrops fallI only know God still is GodAnd watches over all.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

Get plugged in at your church. Find a way to invest yourself. Let's change the church's problem from 'Where do we find the help we need?' to 'What do we do with all the help we have?' The revolution begins now and it starts with you.

Our old history ends with the Cross our new history begins with the resurrection.

One thing is needful to know and abide in the Lord Jesus Christ.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.

I don't care what problem you face it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter it is a place of great splendor in Rome. Nowhere can be found more gold.

An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge I knew she was going to be diving right into a pool of tragedy.

Reason may win truths without Faith she will retain them just so long as Satan pleases.

Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.

God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.

When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.

Christianity and communism cannot be reconciledthey are opposing systems.

It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home.

The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice the true Christian does not.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

We aren’t only called to become Christians we are also called to be Christians.

We have confident God gives only what pleases Him.

In the sacredness of pureness a spark of divinity manifest.

There are two types of spirits either light or darkness.Only one spirit (either light or darkness) operates at a time. Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.

There two kinds of spirit either light or darkness.

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

Do you know why I believe in the Lord Jesus and what He says? Because He has proved to me that He has my best interests at heart. What could He do that He did not do? He already gave His life for us (Romans 5:8-10 8:32)

When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts but not the heathen.

Gratitude without practicing maybe like practicing a faith without good work. A grateful heart is not enough without a grateful habit because your joy is not produced by what you put in your heart but by habit you put in your life.

Be careful because God's gifts alone are not able to give you joy God's gift can only bring you joy when they are joined with your gratitude.

Thank God #EVEN# #THOUGH# in bad times not only in your good this is a graduated form of gratitude.

What is your motive when you go to church? To feed or to be fed? To serve or to be served? To worship or to be worshipped? To praise or to be praised? To teach or to learn? To give or to receive?Remember the woman with the issue of blood did not met Jesus in the church. Blind barthimus was blind though he could hear did not see Jesus but heard about Jesus passing I am just wondering how many people have heard about Jesus through you?Who was this man interested in? Your answer might be Jesus of c

One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above one more Christian has triumphed in the living Faith one more flower is planted and harvested in the garden of God's Kingdom.

God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful in me yet around me creates me yet dies for me.

First we must understand that all of the world's deceptions flow from the belief that love is primarily for the fulfillment and comfort of the self. The world poisons love by focusing first and foremost on meeting one's own needs.Christ taught that love is not for the fulfillment of the self but for the Glory of God and the food of others. True love is selfless. It gives it sacrifices it dies to its own needs.

You can not love someone you do not appreciate and you can not appreciate what you do not see.

There is no doubt that the biblical concept of the Kingdom calls for a ministry to the suffering, the imprisoned, the oppressed, the hungry and whomever is dehumanized by an unjust society. In abstract, almost all of us can affirm this with enthusiasm. When it is the vocation, however, of one of our number to make this Gospel imperative, a matter demanding and requiring us to change our comfortable ways, then many of us fall away. The prophet has never been popular among his other contemporaries

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

The law of God was more vindicated by the death of Christ than it would have been had all transgressors been sent to Hell. For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a more glorious establishment of the government of God, than for the whole race to suffer.

Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English....Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry in public, with facility and acceptance.

In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants. The great, vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure, doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Go, send, or disobey.

As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.

The command has been to 'go,' but we have stayed – in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.

And we neglect the glorious gospel when we fail to recognize his preeminence. How frequently we forget that everything is for him and about him. We forget that he is to be first, in our honor and in our worship. Whenever the gospel slips from our conscious thought, our religion becomes all about our performance, and then we think everything that happens or will ever happen isa bout us. When I forget the incarnation, sinless life, death, resurrection, and ascension, I quickly believe that I'm sup

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

Being an unveiled wife is about confronting and crushing your fears; believing in truth more than in doubt, worry, or lies, and finding your security in God alone

Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings.

Flowing from this union, source of a plenitude of joy, the love of the couple reveals itself through the daily acceptance of the limits and faults of each other and in mutual openness. It is this acceptance in and through gentleness, kindness, forgiveness, confidence and the desire to see shining in the other the warm light of the Spirit of God that becomes the great sign of the merciful love of God for man and His incessant forgiveness.

I am convinced that in the present time, in spite of the difficulties man has to meet another in a state of oblation, communion and gift of self, there are latent hidden forces in him which can be awakened in order to enable him to discover and live this reality of love and fidelity. In order to really penetrate into this mystery of the union of the couple, it is essential that each one acquire an interior maturity, a maturity that is perhaps rare. I would add that in order to be truly united an

The Holy Spirit is like the wind. It can be gentle enough to stroke a leaf but hard enough to bend a tree. God provides us rest, but He'll also bring us an inch away from our breaking point. Both are done in love.

I pray that the Holy Spirit puts His Words in my mouth, His movement in my heart and His direction in my path.

Hook your audience with a tiny snag of truth, and the Holy Spirit will unravel the rest.

God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.

God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.He asked me: “Do you pray?”“No.”“Do you beseech God to forgive your trespasses?”“No.”“Do you not thank God for his bounty?”“No.”“Do you not depend on God's support?”“No.”And with this his puzzlement increased until he was assured that my fate lies in hell indeed.

When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn’t see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a servant of God and a soldier of the cross, a great threat to his kingdom.

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, becau