Christian Living Quotes

“Whatever You Fear, You Empower!”
― Eric D Cooper

“Whatever You Focus On, You Make Room For”
― Eric D Cooper

“Remember that in order to have the last laugh, you need to keep on laughing.”
― Bukky Agboola, Get Unstuck: Unleashing Momentum: The Powerful Key to Your Success!

“When christianity becomes a code of morality, an ethic of “right or wrong,” then you can be sure that we have ceased following Jesus faithfully, have abandoned relationship with God and each other, and have begun the futile search for “the ghost of perfection.”
― Joseph Haward, The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“A community of disciples seeks to express this Trinitarian love faithfully, not through “rule keeping” but through our common life together, following the Way of Jesus, participants in this peculiar way of life with God, instruments used by God, in the power of the Spirit, to be a people of grace, a people of the cross, a people of God.”
― Joseph Haward, The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“Jesus shows us the Way to Truthfully Live, but will we be brave enough to follow him through our fears and into the pursuit of unconditional love?”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Only Jesus knows the future. Find pure peace in his presence— moment to moment. How? Talk to Jesus my guiding light.”
― George Ceremuga, Lead with Love

“Church is a wonderful place but it also at times it has represented the worst of who we are.”
― Nijiama Smalls, The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

“We study theology because we want to add essential knowledge to the Scriptures and provide supporting evidence, not because of any additional revelations.”
― John Mwafise Woloko, The Bible vs Theology: Lighting the Way

“I now prefer to go without food for sometimes than to be always full of food. Fasting has a way of refining a person's character and bringing him or her to a place of reasoning. But to be always full of food is to be a fool! Too much of food is equal to a big fool!”
― A J Osilama

“Anxiety is giving the attention that God deserves to something far more inferior than Him.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“I am the prodigal son every time i search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called the child of God, the beloved of my Father?”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved. Although he wants to heal us of all our inner darkness, we are still free to mate our own choice to stay in the darkness or to step into the light of God's love. God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness there. God's boundless love is there. What is so clear is that God is always there, always ready to give and forgive, absolutely independent of our response. God's love does not depend on our repentance or our inner or outer changes.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved. Although he wants to heal us of all our inner darkness, we are still free to make our own choice to stay in the darkness or to step into the light of God's love. God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness there. God's boundless love is there. What is so clear is that God is always there, always ready to give and forgive, absolutely independent of our response. God's love does not depend on our repentance or our inner or outer changes.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“The story of the prodigal son is the story of a God who goes searching for me and who doesn't rest until he has found me.”
― Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son

“Fight your battles from the heights ( not stooping low) like an Eagle and from the point of rest (trusting God's ability and not yours). Be calm!”
― Henrietta Newton Martin , Legal Counsel , Author. Greatest of All Romances Your Potters Call.

“Life's a journey to be traversed circumspectly! Live, pray, love, serve, work and travel; all with a will; for the clock of your life may next be still”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, Senior Legal Counsel & Author - The Greatest of All Romances- Your Potter’s

“Conservative” should not be used as a synonym for “evangelical.” Evangelicals have
been only selectively conservative. Many evangelicals have also been progressive, and
sometimes even radical—in doctrine, in ethics, in politics, in art, and more: whatever
gets the job done.”
― John G. Stackhouse Jr., Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction

“Especially in the cause of mission, Christians must be sensitive to language—every bit as much as foreign missionaries must be sensitive to language in their crosscultural contexts. How do we hope to win the attention and appreciation of others if we offend them on secondary issues? So keeping up with trends in polite (or “correct”) speech isn’t merely to be trendy. It might be just considerate.”
― John G. Stackhouse Jr., Woke: An Evangelical Guide to Postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and More

“Just because we want to walk one path does not mean we should turn away and choose another out of some misguided sense of duty, honor, or sacrifice. Instead, mayhap the very path we desire most is the one God seeks to lead us down, in order to teach us holiness, trust, and even joy.”
― Rachelle Rea Cobb, The Sound of Silver

“Whether you are hurting in your marriage, separated, or already divorced, may you find comfort and healing in your journey of renewal. Seek wisdom from the only one who can make sense of what you’re going through—God.”
― Loren Cribbs, Wings to Rise above Divorce: Finding Forgiveness, Redemption, and Renewal during Turbulent Separations

“Lugilla’s fingers reached to Precious’ hand, but Precious slipped her fingers from the table and placed them in her lap. “I hope you understand, though I trust you and you’ve been good to me, I cannot call you my friend – prob’ly ever – because we are from two separate worlds, Mrs. Sanders.”
Lugilla swallowed and tried to sip her tea. “I do. Believe me. I do. But do not hesitate to confide in me or say so if I’m not treating you fair like.”
“One day on the other side…”
“Yes, one day when Jesus wipes away all tears from our eyes, we will be like Him and we will be true friends, I’m sure of it.”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“The worldly consequences of my declaration were severe, not just in lost record sales but also in some of the reactions from religious people, which ranged from attempts to use me for their own purposes to condemnations and exclusions from their particular folds.”
― Johnny Cash, Cash

“The hard truth is that love isn't always what sustains our commitment, but it is our commitment that sustains love.”
― Cindy David, What it Means When I Say 'I Do'

“She needed a transformation. She couldn’t change herself. God was going to have to do something inside of her.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“Let people take you for a fool; there is much truth in that.”
― Hadewijch of Antwerp

“One must first be hungry in order to be satisfied.”
― D.L. Mayfield, Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

“Have you ever experienced something in your life you never thought would touch you or your family? Have you ever felt like, ‘God! I thought we were friends, you and me? I thought you loved me. You don’t even seem to be acting according to You Word!’ …I have.”
― Kristen M. Smeltzer, Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft

“We may say, ‘God works all things together or good.’ But if we are not waiting with expectation for our ashes to turn to beauty, this remains head knowledge—not a reflection of our faith in a God who works the impossible on our behalf, simply because He loves us.”
― Kristen M. Smeltzer, Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft

“Holding an expectation of God actually honors Him. A heart of faith-filled expectation says, ‘I know You are good. I know You are all-powerful. I know You are a loving Father and a faithful friend, and I anticipate You being just that.”
― Kristen M. Smeltzer, Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft