Christian Living Quotes

• The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Faithful, Church

  J. I. Packer (2001). “Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs”, p.194, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, World, Moral

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Process, Daily Motivation

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Oct 02, 2012

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• We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.500, Discovery House

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

  John Piper

  Christian, Keys, People

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• Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

  Andy Mineo

  Christian, Giving Up, Self

  FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Jul 22, 2013

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• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

  John Piper

  God, Christian, Religious

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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• Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Discipline, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Grace, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.170, David C Cook

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• He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

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• The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Lying, Heart

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Who Are You to Judge?: Learning to Distinguish Between Truths, Half-Truths, and Lies”, p.39, Moody Publishers

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• Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

  David Platt

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

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• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Religious, Catholic

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• We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Inspiration, Godly

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.173, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Successful, Bombarded By

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• Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Christian, Inspiration

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• A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Spiritual, Fighting

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• Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Principles, World

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• Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Get Well, Mean

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• Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

  Austin Phelps

  Christian, Prayer, Book

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• Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mean, Baptism

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• What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.

  F. Huegel

  Christian, Self, Temptation

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• Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Saint

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