Christian Quotes - Page 69

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there.

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.

The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.

I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.

God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.