Christian Quotes - Page 305

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests. We are as much hosts as any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It is our home as well as theirs. And in a home with so many owners, there can be no official sectarian prayer. That is what the First Amendment is all about, and the first act by the new administration was in defiance of our Constitution.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

A Christian should put away all defense and make no attempt to excuse himself either in his own eyes or before the Lord. Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.

Very few things in life matter.