Christian Quotes - Page 12

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe in 1683 instead of having been forced to withdraw. If the Mohammedans would have gained the victory at the time and Islam would have swept victoriously over Europe, then the Christian churches would have been depoliticized. (...) For the Turks were religiously tolerant, they allowed each religion to continue to exist, provided it was no longer involved in politics - otherwise it was finished.

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

You say, 'Well, I love secular music.' Let me just share something with you: I don't care. I'm not going to go there; this is what I'm going to tell you: It doesn't matter to me whether it's secular or Christian. My question is, what's being said in those words? Because if what's being said in those words contradicts the will of God, you're violating His will, and you're loving it.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

When I hear Christians say, "I don't do this, and I don't do that, and I am following a set of rules," I immediately recognize that they know very little about the grace of God. They are trying to live the Christian life in their own strength. But Paul says, "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus."

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.