Christian Quotes - Page 22

• Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Love, God, Father

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Love, Faith, God

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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

  School, Doubt, Suffering

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• I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Buddhist, Good Friend

  Interview with George Plimpton (Summer 1990), as published in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Ninth Series" edited by George Plimpton, July 1, 1992.

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• What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

  Albert Camus

  World, Should

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• It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Office, Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

  Andy Griffith

  Mother, Years, Getting Older

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Religious, Soul, Care

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

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• As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

  George Orwell

  Political, Advertising, Socialism

  The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

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• Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Answers, Whole, Unified

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.106, InterVarsity Press

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• What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Lying, Men

  Martin Luther, cited by his secretary, in a letter in Max Lenz, ed., "Briefwechsel Landgraf Philips des Grossmuthigen von Hessen mit Bucer", vol. 1; in "Lying: Moral Choice In Public and Private Life‎" by Sissela Bok, New York: Pantheon Books, (p. 47), 1978.

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• I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good - Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty. We are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.

  Randall Terry

  Country, Hate, Biblical

  "Guess Who Came to the Palin Rally?". www.thedailybeast.com. October 30, 2008.

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• I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.

  Randall Terry

  Baby, Thinking, Religion

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• The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.

  Robbie Savage

  Prayer, Missionary, Body

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• I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.

  Jerry Falwell

  Running, Country, Taken

  "Jerry Falwell - Lest We Forget..." by Martin Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2007.

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• This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

  Gary North

  Religion, Atheism, World

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

  Francois Fenelon

  Grace, Soul, Darkness

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• Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.

  Tobias Crisp

  Father, Medicine, Bed

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• As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

  Eric Liddell

  Jesus, Ambition, Challenges

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• Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

  John Ashcroft

  People, Scary, Dignity

  Remarks addressed to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, February 19, 2002.

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• ...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a laggardly manner to these opportunities made available by God to us. God made the call come out of your homeland; Abraham by coming out was exercising obedience. There was the instruction come into the land; it was done, and that was the work of obedience. But the addition which I shall show you has to do with the grace of God, who gave a command - and a promise.

  John Cassian

  Exercise, Opportunity, Land

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.93, Paulist Press

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• The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Wise, Growing Up, Tree

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• Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Jesus, Heart

  Saint Patrick, Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (1885*). “The Writings of Patrick: The Apostle of Ireland. A Revised Translation with Notes Critical and Historical”

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• To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

  R. C. Sproul

  Apostolic Church, Self, Students

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• Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Religious, Order

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