Christian Life Quotes - Page 6

• The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Compassion, Safety

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• You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Band, Believer

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.48, Penguin

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• Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Way, Privilege

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• The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Life, Christian, Jesus

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1926-27”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Art, Blessing

  John Bunyan (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions”, p.116

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• Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites vou, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.

  William Whately

  Christian, Children, Blessing

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• Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Age, Church

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Letting Go, Biblical

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• We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Neighbor, Caught

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.309, Fortress Press

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• I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.26

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• I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  "The Power of Prayer". Book by Wright L. Lassiter, p. 14, 2005.

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• The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Spiritual, Determination

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.45, Discovery House

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• Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

  Richard Sibbes

  Death, Christian, Blessing

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• Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Keys, Needs

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• Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Heart, Blessing

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Heart, Adversity

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “Comfort for Christians”, p.43, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Christian, Spiritual, Birth Defects

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• Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Hope, Anchors

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• Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Lifestyle

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• The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Son

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.378, Discovery House

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• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms, a Collection of Illustrative Extracts from the Whole Range of Literature, a Series of Homiletical Hints Upon Almost Every Verse, and Lists of Writers Upon Each Psalm. Ps. 1-26. I”, p.309

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• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Fall

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• Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

  John Owen

  Christian, Running, Blessing

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

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