Christian Life Quotes - Page 12

• Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Believe, Enemy

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• A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Wise, Regret

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• Living the Christian life is also challenging but for different reasons. The same desire to do well exists - to live a consistent life that honors and pleases the Lord. The big difference is that God isn't evaluating my actions and basing His love on how well I 'perform'. His love for me is unconditional. Even when I mess up He doesn't threaten to trade me off His team.

  Lance Berkman

  Christian, Team, Trade Me

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• It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Intelligent, Knowing

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• The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Sacrifice, Self

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• Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Greatness

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK

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• The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.93, SPCK

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• Our great tendency in this age is to increase our speed, to run faster, even in the Christian life. In the process our walk with God stays shallow, and our tank runs low on fumes. Intimacy offers a full tank of fuel that can only be found by pulling up closer to God, which requires taking necessary time and going to the effort to make that happen.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Running, Effort

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, People, Unhappy

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK

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• The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Life Is, Presence Of God

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2016

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• Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Christian, Wise, Mean

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• Anyone attempting to live a Christian lifestyle will always be pressed towards settling for "nominal Christianity." For the believer who lives in the Bible Belt, it can become less about whether one is living his or her life in complete and total sold-out devotion to God, and more about where I'm going to lunch after church. If I live in an area where Christians are in the minority, there is the pressure to take a more a la carte approach to one's belief system. It's safer to take some of God's teachings and apply the parts we like but push aside that which seems too extreme or exclusive.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Teaching, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.

  George Muller

  Christian, Running, Prayer

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• The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Christian, Disgrace, Discredit

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• God does not judge the condition or quality of His church by how good the meetings are on Sunday morning, but by how good the people are on Monday morning. The main calling of our life is more than just knowing the truth - it is having that truth become our life.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Monday, Morning

  Rick Joyner (2003). “A Message to the Glorious Church”, p.74, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Navigators have had a huge impact in my life; I gave my life to Christ in college and the witness of The Navigators and their dynamic materials have provided a great foundation for my Christian life. As the founder of FOCUS, The Navigator staff has been a great resource to me and to my staff as we too seek to reach a generation of young leaders with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Curtis Martin

  Christian, Jesus, College

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• There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Evil, Doubt

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• The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Problem, Life Is

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• Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, School, Doubt

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• We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Holiness, Spirit

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• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  Tammy Bruce

  Christian, Dream, Encouragement

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Heart, Night

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• Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Feelings, Looks

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• Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He associated with people from all walks of life.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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