Christian Living Quotes

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
― John Wesley

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
― John Piper

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”
― Max Lucado, Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.”
― Barbara Cameron, A Time to Heal

“If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.”
― Wanda E. Brunstetter, Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends Cookbook: Desserts

“He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”
― Amy Carmichael

“And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,
Until it be according unto mine?
But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather
I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.

I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,
I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire—
See in my quiet places, wishes thronging—
Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.”
― Amy Carmichael

“But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

“Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.”
― Max Lucado, Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.”
― Joseph Prince, Unmerited Favor

“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!”
― Ron Sanders

“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”
― A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Search

“Focus on giants - you stumble.
Focus on God - Giants tumble.”
― Max Lucado, Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

“As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.”
― Deborah Brown

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
― Serena B. Miller