Religious Quotes - Page 12

• Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

  Stephen Charnock

  Nature, Son, Giving

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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• God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

  J. D. Greear

  God, Prayer, Knowing

  J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

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• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

  Gregory Palamas

  Death, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human substance which He assumed for our sake, but every person who is found worthy of communion with Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Bible, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• ... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).

  Gregory Palamas

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Success, God, Christian

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• So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

  Norman Geisler

  God, Christian, Wisdom

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• We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power.

  Brother Yun

  Love, God, Christian

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.229, Monarch Books

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• No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  John Flavel

  Jesus, Christian Inspirational, Doctrine

  John Flavel (2014). “Fountain of Life: 1671”

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• Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!

  Octavius Winslow

  Love, God, Christian

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• If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

  Mark Batterson

  God, Christian, Answers

  Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.36, Zondervan

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• No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Choices, Religion

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• God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character.

  Gordon Fee

  Life, God, Christian

  Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.58, Baker Academic

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• Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

  Perry Noble

  Strength, Leadership, God

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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

  Christian, 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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• The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.

  Witness Lee

  Love, Christian, Encouragement

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• Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Jesus, Work

  John Flavel (1836). “The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671”, p.351

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• A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

  Alan Hirsch

  Life, God, Christian

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• Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

  Marion G. Romney

  Life, God, Faith

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• In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

  John Main

  God, Prayer, Thinking

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• As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Fear, Judging, Catholic

  Saint Bridget (of Sweden), Marguerite Tjader Harris, Albert Ryle Kezel (1990). “Life and Selected Revelations”, p.136, Paulist Press

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• I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

  George Takei

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good
  deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

  Ibn Rajab

  Islamic, Competition, Deeds

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