Christian Quotes - Page 8

In the midst of all of this perfect beauty, timeless since the days of Eve, it's the touch of God creating miracles, if in your heart you just believe.

Lisa Mischelle Wood

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

Elizabeth George

Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.

Elizabeth George

When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

Elizabeth George

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

Only in God can you find true fulfillment.

If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.

When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.

Elizabeth George

God's love and mercy are for all people.

Integrity never goes out of style.

A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.

God is faithful even when we are unfaithful.

God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will.

God’s ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.

God’s Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.

Elizabeth George

When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.

Blessed are you, who mediate and believe in God’s Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith is believe.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.

We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.

Eric Samuel Timm

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

Muse

Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.

They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

Travis Thrasher

Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Faith in God, reverence of a Creator!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian. What? Christian is singing softly to himself at the piano. Silence descends on us all as we strain to hear his soft, lyrical voice. I've heard him sing before, haven't they? He stops, suddenly conscious of the deathly hush that's fallen over the room. Kate glances questioningly at me and I shrug. Christian turns on the stool and frowns, embarrassed to realize he's become the center of attention.'Go on,' Grace urges softly. 'I've never heard you sing, Christian. Ever.

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...

...it is a mistake to reduce every decision about Christian living to a "Heaven-or-Hell issue."For example, some ask if the Bible specifically says a certain action is a "sin" or will send them to "Hell." If not, they feel free to indulge in that action unreservedly and ignore any scriptural principles involved. But this approach is legalistic, which means living by rules or basing salvation on works. It treats the Bible as a law book, focusing on the letter and looking for loopholes.By contrast, the Bible tells us that we are saved by grace through faith, not by our works (Ephesians 2:8-9). Grace teaches us how to live righteously, and faith leads us into obedience. (See Titus 2:11-12; Romans1:5; Hebrews 11:7-8.)

David K. Bernard

Law does, "because God said so!"; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.

Never forget what you were saved from.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

Pray for God’s grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

Elizabeth George

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our case in His hands. He will as surely vindicate the cause of those who put their trust in Him as He searched out the guilt of Achan. Those who are actuated by the spirit of Christ will possess that charity which suffers long and is kind.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Elizabeth George

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

Elizabeth George

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious anger to tear down men of God.

Daily prayer, daily grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is a great opportunity to receive grace from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you.

Elizabeth Newton

Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer's soul that gnaws and aches inside of them even unto gray manhood. It is the plague of horizons, the plague of the next river bend, the plague that drives men over the vast oceans into strange lands beyond the edges of the maps.

My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith is the key to spiritual growth and requires a deep and personal connection with God. He wants to be the head of our hearts, king of our souls, and guide to our spirit. By allowing Him free reign in these areas we create an opportunity for lasting intimacy with the Creator. From intimacy comes confidence – in Him and in us.

One of my biggest problems in dealing with the breakdown of my body is that I keep looking in the wrong direction. I look to the past and the capabilities I once had, instead of looking to the future and what I will someday become in the presence and by the grace of God. Perhaps that is the strongest temptation for you too. Our culture reinforces that mistake by its refusal to talk about heaven, as if it were an old-fashioned and outdated notion. We also intensify the problem by craving present health (as limited as it can be) more than we desire God.A friend once said to me. "This is so hard getting old—there are so many things we can‘t do any more. I guess the Lord wants to teach us something." Indeed, our bodies will never be what they previously were, and we find that difficult because we miss our former activities. But God wants to teach us to hunger for Him, our greatest treasure. Instead of rejecting the notion of heaven, we genuinely ache in our deepest self to fill that concept with a larger landscape of the Joy of basking in God‘s presence.

On feeling guilty about lack of 'productivity':"In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment."--Marva Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill pg 137

Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human experience that veil is made of living spiritual tissue; it is composed of the sentient, quivering stuff of which our whole beings consist, and to touch it is to touch us where we feel pain. To tear it away is to injure us, to hurt us and make us bleed. To say otherwise is to make the cross no cross and death no death at all. It is never fun to die. To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

Todd Neva

[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Samuel Rutherford

God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

Self-struggle is spiritual.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.

Elizabeth George

To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about all of creation, then there is no God, then this whole story about creation, about joy, and about the light of life is a total lie.

Alexander Schmemann

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God.

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Elizabeth George

We are peculiar people called to fulfill a great mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The only Christian work is good work well done.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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