Christianity Quotes - Page 19

How can a God who said, “Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own?
D.R. Silva
To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened, and loved--yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the God of endless school assemblies. This is no one's fault, it is just life. Our job is to stay open and gentle, so we can hear the knocking on the door of our heart when it comes. The irony is that I never meet anyone who doesn't want to be loved or held or forgiven. Yet I meet a lot of folk who hate religion. And I so sympathize. But so did Jesus. In fact, He didn't just sympathize, He went much further. It seems more like this Jesus came to destroy religion and to bring life.
Bear Grylls
The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.
D.R. Silva
Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
Bill Hybels
I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not. I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and I choose to believe. I may speak. I may not. I let Him wrap up all my broken in to His grace. He takes me imperfect. This is the great mystery I never knew.
Anna White
Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
Ricky Gervais
Paul tells us that, "The wages of sin is death." That's the bill. Our choice to sin has created a barrier between us and God, taken a toll on our relationship with Him that we can't fix, repair, or pay off on our own. Let's not minimize the situation. We've lived in offense to a holy, righteous God, who reigns in justice. We deserve death for what we've done. Like the Prodigal Son, we've robbed honor from our Father. We have scorned His provision and fled from His house. We have chosen wild living with strangers over a relationship with Him. Like the Prodigal Son, we've told God we'd be better off if He were dead. We've lived in ways that prove our distrust and disbelief in Him. We've chosen a path that leads to starvation and death, so that's what we deserve. Despite all of this, God offers us a brand-new inheritance -- one that has been reclaimed and redeemed by His Son, Jesus Christ, who came to earth and died for our sins. The bill was totaled up, and Christ died to settle that bill. After being crucified, He rose to life again, and He now beckons us home, having prepared a place for us. In the fullness of our sin, God responded with the fullness of His grace through Jesus Christ.
Kyle Idleman
The dreadful joy Thy Son has sentIs heavier than any care;We find, as Cain his punishment,Our pardon more than we can bear.
G.K. Chesterton
And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores.
Kristen McNulty
While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.
Thomas C. Oden
Christian consciousness experiences itself in a curious sense as LIBERATED TO FAIL, without intolerable damage to self-esteem and without any reduction of moral seriousness. We are free to be inadequate, free to foul things up, and yet affirm ourselves in a more basic sense than the secular moralist or humanistic idealist (who can affirm themselves only on the basis of merits and accomplishments. We are free to choose and deny finite values, free to take constructive guilt upon us and to see it as an inevitable and providentially given aspect of our fallen human condition.All that we have said leads us to the pinnacle of this good news: In Jesus Christ we need no longer be guilty before God. It is only before our clay-footed gods that we stand guilty!
Thomas C. Oden
Before whom am I guilty? Myself and my gods. But before God? I would be guilty before God IF God had not disclosed himself as forgiving, taking my place, rendering a verdict of pardon upon me. But upon that IF hinges the force of justification by grace through faith alone. For precisely amid our failure to actualize values we mistakenly imagine as ultimate, God himself continues to perceive us AS IF we were clothed in Christ's own righteousness. The Reformation formula, simul peccator et justus, meant: I am a sinner, deserving condemnation for my idolatry; but from God's point of view I am AT THE SAME TIME pardoned, regarded as if the charge against me were canceled out! the final verdict is thus not the one I give myself or the one that may be given in the courts of law or gossip or peer pressure. Rather, it is what God himself has decided about my situation, how he has regarded and perceived me. Through God's own incomparable initiative, our sin is not remembered against us, even though we may oddly persist in remembering it against ourselves.
Thomas C. Oden
Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God’s faithfulness and forgiveness.
Jim George
Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.
Thomas C. Oden
Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory.
Thomas C. Oden
Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.
Unarine Ramaru
I cannot protect my children from my weaknesses. As hard as I may try, at some point my sin will affect their lives. However, the way I deal with my failure can provide an example for them to follow. I am a sinner raising sinners. Each of my children will face the weight and sorrow of his or her own sins. Just as we teach daily hygiene habits like brushing teeth, our children need instruction on how to find cleansing for their souls. By teaching our children about confession and repentance as well as grace and forgiveness, we bless their lives for years to come.
Melissa B. Kruger
Forgiveness has no deadline.
Paul R Bland
I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What a joyful journey, to travel with the Lord.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You are destiny for greatness. Arise and shine for the glory of God is upon you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May you find grace and power of the Holy Spirit to give you hope for a new life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The Bible is a fountain of life, an instruction on how God want you to live a life on earth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The Bible, divine thoughts of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Prayer is a perfect harmony with God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The spirit of God is mighty upon us.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The Bible is the greatest book ever written.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Creation of mankind, the power of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God has enough blessing for every individual.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When you ask, expect the answer.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God is Holy.God is pure.God is faithful.God is gracious.God is merciful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I am on a mission, I will depend on a greater power to accomplish the task.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Make every effort to hear directly from God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The more we rely on God, the better our lives will be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Live life in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When you hear the voice of God, obey Him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Lord grant me a humble spirit and a willing heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May God empower your inner strength through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Ask for the godly way,travel its path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May God guide you along the best pathway for your life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Trust in the Lord, He will uplift you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you can find your way, a little prayer can help you find the right path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God be thy comfort.God loves you.God will take care for you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Who am I?What is my mission?
Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily seek the divine presence of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest privileges:You are saved.You are a child of Most High God.You are co-heirs with Christ.You share in Christ suffering, life adversities.You share in Christ glory, strength of will and survival of life's difficulties.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When God looks in the mirror He sees love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray for your needs, not your greed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Private prayers are the catalyst for public miracles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Truly edifying words are words that reveal the character and the promises and the activity of God. They're cross-centered words. They're words rooted in and derived from Scripture, words that identify the active presence of God, and words that communicate the evidences of grace that you observe in others. They're words that flow from a humble heart.
C.J. Mahaney
Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.
Dejan Stojanovic
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
C.S. Lewis
You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
C.S. Lewis
I find it sad that more Christian literature does not address miracles, and the possibility of demons in our midst. Jesus performed countless miracles in his life that were clearly discussed in the New Testament. And, he cast out demons. Why do some Christians act as those the potential for miracles died with Him? Why do people believe in angels, but not demons? Both were evident in the Bible.
D.L. Koontz
It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.
Richard Gist
The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote that in bringing the gospel, he did not come with “eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value of eloquence, associating it with his pagan background and training in Greek rhetoric while simultaneously employing it winsomely in his Christian writings. Such suspicion of beauty and form, whether in art, literature, speech, or human flesh, has shadowed Christian thought throughout the history of the church; sadly so, considering God is the author of all beauty.
Karen Swallow Prior

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