Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 25

• Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

  Ambrose

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

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• The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

  Ernest Hello

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

  Leon Bloy

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

  "Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church". Book by Peter Kreeft, 2001.

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• When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

  Edmund the Martyr

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Faith, Inspiration, Wonder

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• Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Self, Giving, Together

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• If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

  William Whiting Borden

  Men, Missionary, Want

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• If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

  Pat Morley

  Missionary, Motto, Bigs

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• Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

  Kurt von Schleicher

  Second Chance, Giving, Grace

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• Sympathy is no substitute for action.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Difficulty, Unbelief

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 62), 1982.

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• Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Useless, Lord

  1763 Journal entry, 22 Dec.

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• True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Indifference, Foe

  Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.171, David C Cook

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• I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Two, Giving

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• Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Reading, Growing

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• Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

  John Piper

  Christian, Prayer, Love Relationship

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

  John Piper

  Christian, Heart, Sin

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Law, Grace

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• Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

  John Piper

  Christian, Rising, Firsts

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• The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Careers, Missionary

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• If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Effort, Missionary

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• It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

  Francis of Assisi

  Leadership, Faith, Spiritual

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