A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good. — John of Kronstadt
A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced. — Ellen G. White
A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus. — Lester Roloff
The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps. — Saint Augustine
God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ. — Erwin W. Lutzer
But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ. — Marvin Olasky
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man. — Charles Wesley
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. — Marcus Aurelius
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. — Henry Ward Beecher
Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ. — Clayton Kershaw
True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves. — Rick Joyner
Christian Quotes
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. — Charles Schumer
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. — Dwight L. Moody
Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. — Immortal Technique
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
I don't give a damn what queers do, and don't give a damn what Christians do. Just get the hell out of my way because I want to live my life and I don't want the government sucking 60% of my wages off my ass. — Alex Jones
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.” — Charles Spurgeon
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
What Is A Christian Quotes
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. — Joyce Meyer
Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength. — Fannie Lou Hamer
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way......What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything....Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything. — Pedro Arrupe
We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within. — Watchman Nee
Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent. — Reza Aslan
How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God. — Henry Blackaby
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. — Ellen G. White
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year. — Ambrose
Christian Sign Quotes
The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His. — Tony Evans
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer. — Alister E. McGrath
To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism… We don’t need a bishop’s assignment to be kind. We don’t need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don’t need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive. — Chieko N. Okazaki
The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience. — John Stott
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood. — Brother Yun
Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin. — Vance Havner
Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world. — Pope Benedict XVI
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them. — Benjamin Franklin
Christian Author Quotes
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority. — Neal Boortz
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve. — John Stott
God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time. — Kirk Cameron
To be yourself in a world that in constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination. — John Sung
Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism. — Carl F. H. Henry
Authority in Christ can only be retained and increased as you witness about the Lord Jesus Christ. — Enoch Adeboye
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable. — Pope Gregory I
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about. — R. C. Sproul
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. — Thomas Paine
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. — Jimmy Carter
Christian Life Quotes
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, uncomparable. You are You, I am I.
You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die. — Cicely Saunders
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel
All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof. — John Wycliffe
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it. — Reinhard Bonnke
The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service. — George Muller
Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best - one who is worthy of all our devotion - Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am — Eric Liddell
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler
Christian Faith Quotes
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. — Smith Wigglesworth
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation. — Clare of Assisi
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people. — Martin Luther
The voice you believe will determine the future you experience — Steven Furtick
To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time. — St. Catherine of Siena
Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.
Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience. — Steven Furtick
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. — Max Lucado
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi
Christian Values Quotes
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. — Saint Augustine
If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't! — John Fugelsang
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things. — John of the Cross
Be curious, bot judgmental.
The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him? — Charles Stanley
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had. — Bernard Lewis
Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values. — Albert Mohler
We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation. — Barack Obama
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain
Coercion is evil precisely because it eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. — Abraham Lincoln
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good. — John Knox
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries. — Warren W. Wiersbe
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. — Vance Havner
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. — Saint Augustine
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good. — J. Vernon McGee
The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad. — Wafa Sultan
Religion Christian Quotes
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. — Billy Sunday
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified. — Leonard Ravenhill
Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him. — Smith Wigglesworth
Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times. — Smith Wigglesworth
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go — A. A. Allen
Speaking in tongues is not enough.If we turn men from unchristian religions to christianity we must produce miracles which convince men that Christ lives and He is real today. — T.L. Osborn
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man. — Alexander Hamilton
The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics. — Charles Grandison Finney
Christian Work Quotes
In those early centuries of Christianity,
Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers
of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph. — John G. Lake
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart. — Paul the Apostle
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. — Corrie Ten Boom
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. — George Carlin
Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil. — Chuck Smith
Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him. — Joyce Meyer
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. — Pope Gregory I
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you — Andy Stanley
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness — David Platt
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me. — Hudson Taylor
Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus. — Louie Giglio
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. — George Washington
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it — Dwight L. Moody
The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly. — Oswald Chambers
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things. — Anthony the Great
There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can't do it - because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel. — Rick Warren
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do. — Frederick William Robertson
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny. — Henry Hancock
Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do. — Jerry Bridges
God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character. — Gordon Fee
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. — Billy Graham
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson
Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God. — Jerry Bridges
God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God's will. He guides you back to the right path. — Henry Blackaby
Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character. — Ravi Zacharias
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. — J. Oswald Sanders
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters. — Katha Pollitt
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful — Colin Powell
The true character of ministry is a servants heart. — Harold J. Warner
Carve your name on hearts, not on marble — Charles Spurgeon
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life. — Charles Stanley
The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian. — Barbara Brown Taylor
Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love. — Norman Geisler
Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies. — Charles Stanley
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character. — J. C. Watts
If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character. — R. C. Sproul
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. — John Nelson Darby
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character. — J. C. Ryle
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. — Cunningham Geikie
The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart. — J. Oswald Sanders
We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people. — W. Phillip Keller
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. — Sayings
he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic. — Joseph Fiennes
Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. — Horace Bushnell
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. — Ronald Reagan
The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system. — J. G. Holland
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence. — Robert Southey
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. — Henry Ward Beecher
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