christian quotes
- a collection of christian quotations

Christian Quotes: Christianity

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty,
but to produce a character
adequate to meet it when it comes.
It does not make life easy;
rather it tries to make us great enough for life.

~ James L. Christensen

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life;
not a philosophy of life, but a living presence.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I believe in Christianity
as I believe that the sun has risen.
Not only because I see it,
but because I see everything by it.

~ C. S. Lewis

Christian Quotes: Christian Living

Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.

This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life,
when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat,
I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,

"You promised me Lord, that if I followed you,
you would walk with me always.
But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life
there has only been one set of footprints in the sand.
Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?"

The Lord replied,
"The years when you have seen only one set of footprints,
my child, is when I carried you."

~ Mary Stevenson

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

~ Martin Luther

Bad will be the day,
for every man
when he becomes absolutely contented
with the life that he is living,
with the thoughts that he is thinking,
with the deeds that he is doing,
when there is not forever beating
at the doors of his soul
some great desire
to do something larger,
which he knows
that he was meant and made to do
because he is still,
in spite of all,
the child of God.

~ Phillips Brooks

The Christian life is not a constant high.
I have my moments of deep discouragement.
I have to go to God in prayer
with tears in my eyes,
and say,
'O God, forgive me,'
or 'Help me.'

~ Billy Graham

One who faces his own failures is steadily advancing on the pilgrim's way.

~ William Temple

Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin.

~ Mother Teresa

This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is important,
because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes,
this day will be gone forever,
leaving in its place something
that I have traded for it.
I want it to be gain, not loss;
good, not evil; success, not failure;
in order that I shall not regret
the price I paid for it.

~ Unknown

This seems a cheerful world, Donatus,
when I view it from this fair garden,
under the shadow of these vines.
But if I climbed some great mountain
and looked out over the wide lands,
you know very well what I would see
--brigands on the high roads, pirates on the seas;
in the amphitheaters men murdered
to please applauding crowds;
under all roofs misery and selfishness.
It is really a bad world, Donatus,
an incredibly bad world.
Yet in the midst of it
I have found a quiet and holy people.
They have discovered a joy
which is a thousand times better
than any pleasures of this sinful life.
They are despised and persecuted,
but they care not.
They have overcome the world.
These people, Donatus,
are the Christians...
nd I am one of them.

~ Cyprian

A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God.

~ Robert E. Gibson

Christian Quotes: Christmas

If
we could
condense all
the truths of Christmas
into only three words,
these would be the words:
"God with us."
We tend to focus our attention at Christmas
on the infancy of Christ.
The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
More astonishing than a baby in the manger
is the truth that this promised baby
is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!

~ John F. MacArthur, Jr.

Love came down
on Christmas Day so many years ago
and brought the greatest happiness
the world would ever know...
Peace came down on Christmas Day
to fill the hearts of men
with all the sweet tranquility
each Christmas brings again...
Joy came down on Christmas Day
as angels came to earth
heralding the miracle
of our Messiah's birth.

~ Unknown

Christian Quotes: Guidance

As we trust God to give us
wisdom for today's decisions,
He will lead us a step at a time
into what He wants us
to be doing in the future.

~ Theodore Epp

God speaks to us through our desires,
then as we lay them at His feet,
He helps us sort them out and quiets our hearts
to accept what He has already prepared.

~ Rosalind Rinker

Christian Quotes: Kindness

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

~ Oscar Wilde

The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.

~ William Wordsworth

Christian Quotes: Love

Love come out of heaven unasked and unsought.

~ Pearl S. Buck

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

~ Feodor Dostoevsky

Christian Quotes: Faith

Faith has to do with things that are not seen,
and hope with things that are not in hand.

~ Saint Thomas Acquinas

Christian Quotes: Miscellaneous

He is no fool
who gives what he cannot keep
to gain what he cannot lose.

~ Jim Elliot

God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him.

~ Marcus Aristides

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

~ C.S.Lewis

Tough times never last, but tough people do!

~ Robert Schuller

A good character is the best tombstone.
Those who loved you
and were helped by you
will remember you
when forget-me-nots have withered.
Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

~ Charles H. Spurgeon