Christian Quotes
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"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"
"A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around.""Funny, I feel that way about you too."He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away."
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it."
"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."
"The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God."
"If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian."
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
"I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself."
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
"An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear."
"I have to return some videotapes"
"Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew."
"when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus"
"When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends."
"The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love."
"Dive deep. Drown willingly"
"Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone."
"God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive."
"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work."
"It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love."
"Language is the key to the heart of people."
"Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God."
"So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time."
"Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish."You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do."
"Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith."
"We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly."
"You've brushed your teeth,"He says, staring at me."I used your toothbrush."His lips quirk up in a half smile. "Oh Anastasia Steele, what am I going to do with you?"
"Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures."
"We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding."
"The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him."
"Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for."
"If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world."
"Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You."
"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."
"When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless"
"CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!"
"When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect?"
"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!"
"If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders."
"As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love."
"Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting"
"Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives."
"It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do."
"Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do."
"One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself."
"When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable)."
"Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world...or at least a little part of it."
"I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God acts rightly, but to us, it seems confusing. Or sometimes plain wrong."
"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."
"Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."Proverbs 1:7 NLT"
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