Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 14

• Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Real, Self

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Giving Up, Hands

  "Hudson Taylor's Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses". Book by Hudson Taylor, 2018.

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• Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Faith, God, Christian

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters”, p.47

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• If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  God, Christian, Religious

  Henri Nouwen (2011). “The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life”, p.27, Orbis Books

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• We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

  "The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life".

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• Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

  Festo Kivengere

  Love, God, Christian

  Festo Kivengere, Dorothy Smoker (1977). “I Love Idi Amin: The Story of Triumph Under Fire in the Midst of Suffering and Persecution in Uganda”

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• Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

  John Piper

  Your Side, Together, Grumbling

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• Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Godly, Men

  Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey (2016). “HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]”, p.18, Christian Publishing House

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• The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Inspiration, Secret

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• He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, God Love, Lovable

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.119, Harper Collins

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• It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver.

  Frank W. Boreham

  Christian, Great Things

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• Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Giving, Facts

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• The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  Life, Christian, Time

  Theodore Austin-Sparks (2011). “The School of Christ”, p.5, Book Ministry

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• Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Kindness, Tombstone

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• A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, World, Signals

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.333, Discovery House

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• Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Years

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