Christian Quotes - Page 329

That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.

The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say--with every fresh need has come a fresh supply.

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?

We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

We must never edit God.

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.