Christian Quotes - Page 269

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it.

The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.

A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.