Christian Quotes

“God always threw the life preserver that messed-up, selfish humans desperately needed, right when they needed it...Right at the point of breaking, when they’d actually grab on.”
― Ronie Kendig, Storm Rising

“Am I so terribly insecure that every time life hits me I must immediately run off to some mirror and gaze into it in order to make certain that I am who I thought I was? Frankly, what I’d much rather do is rest in who God says I am. Then I can throw all my mirrors away instead of throwing away all my time looking into them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Jesus was buried in a borrowed tomb because He was planning on returning it to its rightful owner after a short weekend.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it?”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Will we abandon the dream to the brutality of the road that we must walk in order to bring the dream to reality? Or will we lay ourselves before God as the author of dreams and leveler of roads?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world offers us a lot of mirrors, and we spend a whole lot of time standing in front of a whole lot of them. And regardless of which one of these many mirrors we choose, it will never be large enough to take in ‘all that we are’ in order to reflect ‘all that we are’ back to us. For God made you far too marvelous for the mirrors of men. Therefore, you might want to quit standing in front of them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe the last thing that we want to do should be the first thing that we choose to do. And in the society that I see unfolding around me, maybe that thing should be the surrender of everything that we are to everything that God is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not what God asks of us. Rather, it’s what He wants to give to us. And in a society that has focused on the former at the exclusion of the latter, we have fundamentally ‘asked’ that God give us ‘nothing.’ And if you’re at all curious about what ‘nothing’ looks like, watch the news.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“God is in control + God is good + God loves you = Your peace”
― Jonathan Pokluda, Welcome to Adulting: Navigating Faith, Friendship, Finances, and the Future

“We'll trust God for our eternal salvation, but not trust him in the small details of our day-to-day life?”
― Jonathan Pokluda, Welcome to Adulting: Navigating Faith, Friendship, Finances, and the Future

“I was talking to a homeless man at a laundromat recently, and he said when we reduce Christian spirituality to math, we defile the holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting. Because I have never been good at math. Many of our attempts to understand christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than a pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas, such as “God is good”, “God feels”, “God knows all”, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on his majesty and otherness forever.

This past summer I made the point to catch sunsets...fire in the clouds. I never really wanted to make the trip...but once I got up there, I always loved it...all that beauty happens right above the heads of more than a million people who never notice it. Here is what I’ve started thinking. All the wonder of God happens right above our arithmetic and formula. The more I climb outside my pat answers, the more invigorating the view; the more my heart enters into worship.

When we worship God, we worship a being our experience does not give us the tools to understand. If we could, God would not inspire awe.”
—Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I thought somehow he would sense my disapproval and change his life in order to gain my favor. In short, I withheld love. I knew what I was doing was wrong. It was selfish. And what’s more, it would never work. By withholding love from my friend, he became defensive. He didn’t like me. He thought I was judgmental, snobbish, proud, and mean. Rather than being drawn to me, wanting to change, he was repulsed. I was guilty of using love like money, withholding to get somebody to be who I wanted them to be. I was making a mess of everything. And I was disobeying God...I had fallen miles short of God’s aim...I repented. I replaced economic metaphor with something different, a free gift metaphor, or a magnet metaphor. That is, instead of withholding love to change somebody, I poured it on, lavishly. I hoped that love would work like a magnet, pulling people from the myre, and toward healing. I knew this is the way God loved me. God never withheld love to teach me a lesson.
Here is something simple about relationships [I discovered]: nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them... After I repented, things were different. But the difference wasn’t with my friend. The difference was with me. Before I had all this judgementalism and pride and loathing of other people. I hated it. And now I was set free. I was free to love. I didn’t have to discipline anybody, I didn’t have to judge anybody, I could treat everybody as though they were my best friend, as though they were rockstars or famous poets, as though they were amazing, and to me, they became amazing. Especially my new friend. I loved him. After I decided to let go of judging him, I discovered that he was very funny. I mean, really hilarious. And he was smart. Quite brilliant really. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen it before. I felt as though I had lost an enemy, and gained a brother. And then he began to change. It didn’t matter to me whether he did or not, but he did. He began to get a little more serious about God...He was a great human being getting even better. I could feel God’s love for him. I loved the fact that it wasn’t my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God’s. That my part was just to communicate love.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I have found that unless I surrender every part of my life to God every part of my day, I will end up missing most every part of my life every day of my life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My thesis for this book is that Christian contentment is finding delight in God's wise plan for my life and humbly allowing him to direct me in it.”
― Andy Davis

“I skipped a stone on the glass-like surface of a sleepy lake this morning. And I watched the ripples roll out from the stone’s impact until their energy abated and they fell smooth as was the rest of the lake. And as it become smooth again, I thought that one of the greatest things I could ask of God would be to grant me the gift of a soul with such inner calm that it would smooth out every ripple from every stone that Satan could ever throw into it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In full uniform, the color guard marched by as part of the parade. And as they did, he forced his horribly slumped and deeply aged body out of his worn wheelchair and stood to ram-rod attention. He held a salute until the guard had passed, and then he feebly collapsed back into his wheelchair. As I stared in ever-warming admiration, emblazoned across his hat I saw the words “WWII Veteran.” And while I deeply admire his stirring passion for our country, I stood there wishing that my passion for the cause of Christ might someday be strong enough to lift me out of the many wheelchairs within which I sit.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, LPC

“Now that I was learning that converting to Christianity entailed a whole lot more than pats on the back and potluck lunches in affluent North Texas churches. God and I had to have a serious conversation about how I was to handle the realities of being a Muslim convert and facing what was likely to be a hostile environment.”
― Ali Master, Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes

“I was devastated to learn that both my parents were facing persecution and insults from the entire family. They had failed to raise me to follow the “right path.” The fact that I was adopted was cited as a reason, I was told. Town gossips gleefully whispered juicy details about my misdeeds and my parents’ equally horrific failure to raise their only son to be a good Shia Muslim. The fact that my dear parents were being judged and persecuted felt worse than anything anyone could have done to me personally. It was second only to their desperate pleas with me to label my decisions as mere crimes of passion...”
― Ali Master, Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes

“As a kid we would step out on those thick summer nights and collect lightening bugs. And with a mason jar chock full of them, their combined brilliance would light up my hands as I held them. But, if I released them from the jar, their brilliance would light up the world, which now included the hands of everyone around me. And as I think about the light of the Gospel and the utter brilliance of its message, as Christians maybe we should get rid of our jars.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Idolatry is the thing that will always get in the way of and ultimately destroy your relationship with God, your heavenly father.”
― Dr. Dana Carson, One True King: Surrendering Our Attitudes At the Altar of Revival

“Those whom the Lord uses will have to be willing to be misunderstood and persecuted by people who have historically meant a great deal to them.”
― Dr. Dana Carson, One True King: Surrendering Our Attitudes At the Altar of Revival

“Studies have consistently revealed that a lot of people who attend church do not really have a personal relationship with God. My friend, that is a staggering revelation, and the implications for the church are far-reaching!”
― Dr. Dana Carson, One True King: Surrendering Our Attitudes At the Altar of Revival

“I am begging you to let nothing shackle you that God has sent you to unshackle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do not be ashamed of who you are, for in doing so you are not taking into account the majesty of all that you are. And without any shred of doubt I know that you are a person of majesty, for in my innumerable years of working with people I have yet to find even one person who is not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stand up and be the light that God created you to be. Stand with me and the millions of others like both of us who have bowed before this inexplicably marvelous God of ours and in the bowing have begged that He not let us die until the darkness in the world around us has died first.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Look in the mirror. Go ahead and look yet again. And look not at the reflection, for while this body of yours is marvelously complex in ways that continue to elude the reach of modern science, it is but a simple shell that holds the image of God within you. And if the shell is that grand, how much more what God has placed inside of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The Father is seeking people who worship him in spirit and truth - not soul and truth or body and truth.”
― Brice Tabor, Behold: Experience a Lifestyle of Intimacy With Your Creator.

“Time with God is foremost about heart-to-heart connection, not gaining knowledge.”
― Brice Tabor, Behold: Experience a Lifestyle of Intimacy With Your Creator.

“The absence of sin doesn’t create the presence of Jesus. The presence of Jesus creates the absence of sin.”
― Brice Tabor, Behold: Experience a Lifestyle of Intimacy With Your Creator.