Christian Quotes - Page 67

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart!

Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending.

Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother.'

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

The Christian church was born in song.