Christian Quotes - Page 21

• They lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faith, Jesus, Gains

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.321

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• The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

  Lester Roloff

  Bible, Teacher, Reading

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• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

  Caster Semenya

  God, Being Yourself, Love Yourself

  "Caster is a cover girl" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2009.

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• The same yesterday, today, and forever.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Future, Past

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.2625, Moody Publishers

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• Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

  Ken Ham

  Teaching, Evil, Giving

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• We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Strength, Trust, Jesus

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Spiritual

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• The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Powerful, Humility, Catholic

  "A Year with the Saints" by P. J. Kenedy, (p. 47), 1891.

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• I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Communist

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• Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

  Jack W. Hayford

  God, Religious, Prayer

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• Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

  John Eudes

  Faith, Jesus, Wish

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• Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

  Francis Chan

  God, Religious, Thinking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.22, David C Cook

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• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Religious

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Religious, Evil

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Lying, Reading

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• To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Religious, Children

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.554, Discovery House

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• Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Confidence

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.137, Discovery House

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• Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

  C. F. W. Walther

  God, Spiritual, Heart

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• In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

  Brother Yun

  West, Abundance, States

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2008). “Living Water: Powerful Teachings from the International Bestselling Author of The Heavenly Man”, p.177, Harper Collins

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• We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, God, Faith

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, God, Party

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Success, Encouraging, God

  Twitter post from May 29, 2012

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• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Faith, Religious

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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