Christian Quotes
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. - Carl Gustav Jung
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. - Abraham Lincoln
If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. - Saint Augustine of Hippo
It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws; And this shall make, in every Christian clime, The bell of Atri famous for all time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding, in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. (The Antichrist, 1895) - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die. - Voltaire
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. - Leo Tolstoy
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people, a black people, who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.- John Calvin
When we have reached this total deprivation what shall we do? Abide in simplicity and peace, as Job on his ash heap, repeating, Blessed are the poor in spirit; those who have nothing have all, since they have God.- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?- François Fénelon
To reach satisfaction in all, desire its possession in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing. To come to the knowledge of all, desire the knowledge of nothing.- John of the Cross
Prayer is continual abandonment to God.- Sadhu Sundar Singh
Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.- Thomas Brooks
I had rather be in hell with Christ, then be in heaven without him.- Martin Luther
Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
You have nothing to do in life except to live in union with Christ.- Rufus Mosely
Abide in Jesus, the sinless one - which means, give up all of self and it's life, and dwell in God's will and rest in his strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.- Andrew Murray
Abortion is 'the great modern sin.- Karl Barth
Concerning abortion, the Didache refers to 'child murderers, who go the way of death, who slay God's image in the womb.'- Didache
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.- Martin Luther
It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!- Mother Teresa
Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to crime.- Susan B. Anthony
Procrastination and worry are the twin thieves that will try to rob you of your brilliance - but even the smallest action will drive them from your camp.- Gil Atkinson
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor; nor has any man a right to be so immersed in active life as to neglect the contemplation of God.- Augustine of Hippo
There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power.- Honoré de Balzac
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so.- Phillips Brooks
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'- Thomas Brooks
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.- John Calvin
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.- Peter Drucker
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.- François Fénelon
The vision must be followed by the venture, It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.- Vance Havner
Iron rust from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in the cold weather becomes frozen; even so does in action sap the vigor of the mind.- Leonardo da Vinci
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. - Maxwell Maltz
One drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.- Hannah More
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.- Augustine of Hippo
We are always in forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.- H.W. Beecher
Adversity is the trial of principal. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.- Henry Fielding
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.- Viktor Frankl
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.- William Gurnall
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.- Horace
Never forget that God test his real friends more severely than his lukewarm ones.- Kathryn Hulme
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.- John of the Cross
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.- Helen Keller
Only in the winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.- John F. Kennedy
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.- Robert Leighton
They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?- Martin Luther
Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings.- George Macdonald
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.- Agatha Christie
The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.- D.E. Hoste
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.- Seneca
He that gives good advice, builds with one; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.- Francis Bacon
Advice like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.- Josh Billings
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.- Winston Churchill
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No gift is more precious than good advice.- Erasmus
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.- Benjamin Franklin
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.- Ben Johnson
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.- Karl von Knebel
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.- Thomas Brooks
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.- John Bunyan
Blessed is he who bears affliction with thankfulness.- Abba Copres
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.- Tobias Crisp
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.- William Gurnall
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposes no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.- Joseph Hall
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.- Matthew Henry
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.- Brother Lawrence
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.- James Baldwin
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.- Omar Bradley
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.- Edmund Burke
The longer I live, the stronger becomes my conviction that the truest difference between the success and the failure, between the strong and the weak, between the big and the small man, that separates the boys and the men, is nothing but a powerful aim in life, a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. And no perfect speech or manners, no culture or education, no pull or influence, can make a two-legged creature a man without it.- Thomas Buxton
If you can dream it, you can do it.- Walt Disney
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.- Albert Einstein
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.- Hellen Keller
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.- Robert F. Kennedy
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.- Martin Luther King Jr.
As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.- Eric Liddell
But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.- Ambrose
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.- Thomas Aquinas
Besides each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.- Basil the Great
They, above all, are pre-eminently worthy of the name angel because they first receive the divine light, and through them are transmitted to us the revelations which are above us.- Dionysius the Areopagite
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'- Francis Bacon
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.- Henry Ward Beecher
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.- Charlotte Brontë
No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.- John Chrysostom
Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.- John Climacus
Be not angry, for anger leads to murder, nor jealous nor contentious nor wrathful; for of all these things murders are engendered.- Didache
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.- John Donne
Beware the fury of a patient man.- John Dryden
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.- Benjamin Franklin
You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.- Gregory the Great