Christian Life Quotes - Page 13

• God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity, He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ: If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter, our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.

  Joseph Parker

  Jesus, Flower, Animal

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• The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Contemplative Life, Discovery

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That's the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Affection, Easy

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• Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Jesus, Want

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• In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

  Leland Ryken

  Christian, Thinking, Energy

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• Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Want, Way

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books

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• Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Weakness, Viewpoints

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• The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.41, Multnomah

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• We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life.

  Joseph Girzone

  Jesus, Attitude, Book

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• The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Growth, Church

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• I believe that family is closer to God's heart than anything else, the support system he has given us to build us up in faith, and to support us when we falter. If we want our family lives to conform to God's will, Jesus must be our priority, our focal point, in our home as well as in our ministries.
  That doesn't mean that it's always easy to live together: home can be the hardest place to live a Christian life. That's were people see us when we're tired and our defences are down.

  Angus Buchan

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, May

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• If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Spiritual, Source

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• God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true – that God loves us already – and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Believe, Becoming

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• The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!

  W. Ian Thomas

  Christian, Jesus, Years

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• One of the commonest causes of failure in Christian life is found in the attempt to follow some good man whom we greatly admire. No man and no woman, no matter how good, can be safely followed. If we follow any man or woman, we are bound to go astray. There has been but one absolutely perfect Man on this earth-the Man Christ Jesus. If we try to follow any other man we are surer to imitate his faults than his excellencies. Look to Jesus and Jesus only as your Guide.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.120, Christian Publishing House

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• We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Saint, Abnormal, World

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• It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.

  Gene Edwards

  Christian, Father, Frustration

  Gene Edwards (1991). “The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?”, Christian Books Pub House

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• Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus Christ? Would you say that the highest, best law for a man to live by was contained in asking the question 'What would Jesus do?' And then doing it regardless of results? In other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus' example as closely as they can in their daily lives?

  Charles Sheldon

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

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• The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Humility, Opposites

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• An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.

  F. Huegel

  Christian, New Life, Resurrection

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• The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.

  Mike Erre

  Christian, Realizing, Life Is

  Mike Erre (2014). “Astonished: Recapturing the Wonder, Awe, and Mystery of Life with God”, p.100, David C Cook

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