Christian Quotes

“If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“These religious types were the fans that Jesus seems to have the most trouble with. Fans who will walk into a restaurant and bow their heads to pray before a meal just in case someone is watching. Fans who won’t go to R-rated movies at the theater, but have a number of them saved on their DVR at home. Fans who may feed the hungry and help the needy, and then they make sure they work it into every conversation for the next two weeks. Fans who make sure people see them put in their offering at church, but they haven’t considered reaching out to their neighbor who lost a job and can’t pay the bills. Fans who like seeing other people fail because in their minds it makes them look better. Fans whose primary concern in raising their children is what other people think. Fans who are reading this and assuming I’m describing someone else. Fans who have worn the mask for so long they have fooled even themselves.”
― Kyle Idleman

“Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.”
― Tony Evans

“There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.”
― Lisa Samson, Hollywood Nobody

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian’s life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.”
― Paul David Washer

“When a human lighthouse sees you in the midst of your storm, it points you toward safety and protection. In doing so, it also sends you and uncompromising message of belief: Yes, the situation is difficult, but you are not alone. I’m standing right here with you, and I know the way home.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader

“Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice

“When someone we know is afraid of judgment, we can provide a safe haven for their hopes by telling them first and foremost that we are proud of their efforts.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.”
― J.C. Ryle

“Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46)”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A prayer of repentance is very powerful because it puts you in a place of mercy and grace with God. When you are forgiven, the devil is stripped of his powers over you and your life, and every satanic control he has over you is broken.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

“I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.”
― John Paul Warren

“The powers of darkness, the devil and his army, do not want your God-ordained purpose and destiny to be fulfilled in your life… It is time we pick up the weapons of our warfare and bring them to the devil—instead of just talking about it—if we want to experience the type of victory Jesus already purchased for
us through the finished work of the cross.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

“We try to fight the enemy with yesterday’s anointing for today’s battle. Yesterday’s anointing was good for yesterday—and for yesterday’s victory—but when we try to fight the new battles and new spiritual warfare of today, we learn a hard lesson: There are new levels and new devils.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

“We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.”
― Neta Jackson, Who Is My Shelter?

“When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart. ”
― LaMar Boschman

“Hebrews 12:1- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“I've gone to prepare a place for you
But I will come back again.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“The Christian life is not a horror movie; it is a love story. We should never live in fear of our Abba.”
― David A. Fiensy, The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians

“Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.”
― Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

“God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.”
― Laura Story, What if Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops

“If we could summarize all, or almost all, of the New Testament letters, we would not be too far off the mark to say the theme is: “Grow up!” Just grow up.”
― David A. Fiensy, The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians

“All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.”
― Robert McGee, The Search for Significance - Workbook: Build Your Self-Worth on God's Truth

“​Oh God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incar​​nate.”
― Arthur Bennett, The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

“Kas was right: a woman could destroy a man. This one could do so, simply by knowing his name. She could do so, simply with her eyes.”
― V.S. Carnes, Sand for Dreams