Christian Quotes - Page 27

• God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Hope, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.23, Penguin

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• How we use our money is the clearest outside indicator of what we really believe. ... If someone is a true disciple of Jesus Christ, the evidence will be found in that person's everyday life - including his or her use of money.

  Larry Burkett

  Money, Jesus, Believe

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• He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.

  Maria Goretti

  Love, God, Hope

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• The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Religious, Men

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.44, Bethany House

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• The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

  Mark Galli

  Commitment, Decision, Doe

  Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.115, Baker Books

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• At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

  Josemaria Escriva

  God, Faith, Religious

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• If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

  Heidi Baker

  Religious, Passion, Missionary

  Heidi Baker (2016). “Daily Insights to Birthing the Miraculous: 100 Devotions for Reflections and Prayer”, p.354, Charisma Media

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• It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.

  Heidi Baker

  Love, Compassion, Missionary

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• There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good.

  Gardner C. Taylor

  God, Faith, Confidence

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• If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, God, Wise

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• We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp

  Caryll Houselander

  Life, Faith, Jesus

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• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, God, Confidence

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.207, Discovery House

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• The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

  Howard Storm

  Death, Religious, Long

  Howard Storm (2005). “My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life”, p.51, Harmony

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• The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  Life, Time, Jesus

  Theodore Austin-Sparks (2011). “The School of Christ”, p.5, Book Ministry

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• Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people in the lowly walks of life can share with Jesus, by letting His mind be in them.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Life, Jesus, Stars

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• Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

  Catherine Marshall

  Inspirational, Encouraging, God

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• For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

  Russell D. Moore

  Life, Religious, Jesus

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• The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

  F. F. Bruce

  Religious, Men, Righteous Man

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• A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

  Frank Bartleman

  God, Fall, Sacrifice

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• The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

  Antony Flew

  Religious, Miracle, Religion

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.85, InterVarsity Press

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• One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivation, Mistake, Inspiration

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Mom

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

  Philip Yancey

  Love, God, Religious

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• We don't get to decide who God is.

  Francis Chan

  God, Decision, Pastor

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.20, David C Cook

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