Christian Faith Quotes

I regard my Christian faith as the greatest gift I've ever been given, and I will dwell no more on this except to say that in retrospect, I think I always knew there was something missing in my life. ~ Nicholas Sparks

All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.' ~ Ramsay MacMullen

To last, a marriage and family must be built on love - love for God, and love for one another. ~ Elizabeth George

You will find love, when you surrender yourself to love. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture. ~ John Lennox

Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith. ~ Norman Davies

When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions. ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

Victory occurs when you let God fight your battles. ~ Jim George

don't do d right things for the wrong reasons ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges! ~ Jim George

But in a few years, as part of their effort to push Jews out of German public life, the Nazis would attempt to puah them out of the German church too. That these "non-Aryans" had publicly converted to the Christian faith meant nothing, since the lens through which the Nazis saw the world was purely racial. One's genetic makeup and ancestral bloodline were all that mattered; one's most deeply held beliefs counted for nothing. ~ Eric Metaxas

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms. ~ Jim George

God designed the church to be a community of lifelong learners under the earthly guidance of leaders who are teachers at heart. The Christian faith is not a finite course of study for the front-end of adulthood. Our mind-set shouldn't be to first do our learning and then spend the rest of our lives drawing from that original deposit of knowledge. Rather, ongoing health in the Christian life is inextricably linked to ongoing learning. ~ David Mathis

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine. ~ John Stuart Mill

We are a new creation by God's grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The testimony of God is true. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a happy spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse. ~ Allan Boesak

Gratitude promotes good well-being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I was recently providing music at a conference where one of the speakers, a noted professor of theology, remarked that we are in the "Experiential Age" of the Christian faith, an age that is defined by a professed personal relationship with Christ. Then she threw up her hands and said: "What does that mean? ~ Ashley Cleveland

The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because many of them left England, because they were persecuted by the church, because they want to express their Christian faith in a different way. So it was a bit of warfare between Christians. ~ John Lennox

We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion ... When you read the Koran and you read the verses from the Koran, it instructs the killing of the infidel, for those that are non-Muslim. ~ Franklin Graham

Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you. ~ Elizabeth George

Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness. ~ John C. Lennox

Christians must set their mind on the Saviour, Jesus Christ. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be times in every person's life when circumstances don't add up - when God doesn't appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised. ~ James Dobson

May God overflow your life with bountiful blessings of grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever God does today will be as significant as the parting of the Red Sea. ~ Rebecca VanDeMark

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?' ... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Our first loyalty is to the Lord God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith. ~ Francis Collins

God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will. ~ Jim George

Focus on faith in God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is something so tough about grace, though, that some people refuse to accept it. Other world religions or worldviews make ladders we need to climb to get to heaven, when the real Christian faith can only be lived by army crawling to get it. We have to get low. We have to humble ourselves. And I promise joy is on the other side. ~ Jefferson Bethke

The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him. ~ Elizabeth George

Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith. ~ Doug Batchelor

Blessed be the grateful soul! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith ... So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place. ~ Barack Obama

No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don't ever, ever, ever lose hope! ~ Jim Yackel

Money cannot buy life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped - it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Rather than attack the Christian faith directly, many films undermine foundational Christian principles, including the human need for salvation. These films present a false "gospel" that leads people away from the truth. Recognizing these messages in movies can help us avoid being adversely influenced by them. Just as importantly, the messages in these stories can provide us with starting points for sharing the true gospel of Jesus Christ. ~ Douglas Beaumont

I project my limits on God when faith would say that I should be projecting His limitlessness on me. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

As Christians we must realize there are millions of people in the world (indeed, within the Christian faith) who do not live by our worldview, and we must learn how to interact with them, love them, and tolerate them. ~ Holly Sprink

And I pray that you no longer seek happiness from the past, but rather you set your sails forward, to a land that is pure and wonderful. I pray that you no longer stare into the shallows of empty promises, but that you dive into the depth of an ocean of guarantees. May you feel the winds of hope, and smell the scent of joy, may your heart be alive again as it was meant to be. For you are with a better captain, you are with a true sailor, a true leader; You are sailing with Christ, and He is always sure to lead us home. ~ T.B. LaBerge

We must seek the inner self, the power within. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If the only prayer you said is 'The Lord's Prayer'; it is enough. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith
contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition
the desire to succeed
to have power
leads to most ills of the human soul. If the desire is realized it leads to arrogance, violence and final satiety; and if it is denied
ah! if it is denied
let all the asylums for the insane rise up and give their testimony! The are filled with human beings who were unable to face being mediocre, insignificant, ineffective and who therefore created for themselves ways of escape from reality so to be shut off from life itself forever. ~ Agatha Christie

Throughout history, Christians have faced the persistent temptation of confusing the language we use to talk about God with the essence of Christian faith. This stubborn human tendency to turn doctrine into an idol - to confuse a human creation with the truth itself - can easily lead people to wield doctrinal claims as a weapon against minority or dissenting perspectives. Thus, anyone who does not line up with a certain formulation of Christian faith is not only wrong, but also a heretic and therefore worthy of punishment or death. ~ John D. Roth

Only when Christian faith in God is lost do people feel compelled to make use of all means - even criminal - to force the victory of their cause. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To hide is our insecurities telling God that what we fear is bigger than Who He is. And in this case, maybe we should shoot the messenger. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes it takes a knock in life to make us sit up and grab life. And I had just undergone the mother of all knocks.
But out of that despair, fear, and struggle came a silver lining--and I didn't even know it yet.
What I did know was that I needed something to give me back my hope. My sparkle. My life. I found that something in my Christian faith, in my family, and also in my dreams of adventure.
My Christian faith says that I have nothing ever to fear or worry about. All is well.
At that time, in and out of hospital, it reminded me that, despite the pain and despair, I was held and loved and blessed--my life was secure through Jesus Christ.
That gift of grace has been so powerful to me ever since.
My family said something very similar: "Bear, you are an idiot, but we love you anyway, forever and always."
That meant the world to me and gave me back some of the confidence that I was struggling to find again.
Finally, I had my not insubstantial dreams of adventure. And those dreams were beginning to burn bright once more.
You see, I figure that life is a gift. I was learning that more than anyone.
My mum always taught me to be grateful for gifts. And as I slowly began to recover my strength and confidence, I realized that what mattered was doing something bold with that present.
A gift buried under a tree is wasted.
Alone one night in bed, I made a verbal, out-loud, conscious decision, that if I recovered well enough ~ Bear Grylls

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith doesn't rely on odds or statistical data. God only requires that we have faith; the rest is up to him. ~ Nancy Stephan

Christian faith is more about connecting our lives with Christ than it is about gaining spiritual information. ~ Brian Zahnd

Children are lovable and adorable. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

Jesus himself provides the measuring stick by which we may know whether a teacher or practitioner of the Christian faith is genuine or fraudulent. "You shall know them by their fruit, ~ Brian Tubbs

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer. ~ Elizabeth George

When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you. ~ Jim George

Embrace faith, hope and love. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The path of light is the path of love. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat ~ Brian D. McLaren

It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe. ~ H.A.L. Fisher

It is still a metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests - that even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato's faith, that God is truth; that truth is divine. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A human being can only endure so much. This life exceeds the limit! ~ Gary McDougall

May our conscience be renewed by the WORD of GOD. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide. ~ Ravi Zacharias

The Sovereign LORD is a mighty KING. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort. ~ Criss Jami

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions. ~ John Shelby Spong

I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious. And I don't see any indication that being religious makes you more moral. ~ John Shelby Spong

First, Paul is anxious that everyone who professes Christian faith should allow the gospel to transform the whole of their lives, so that the outward signs of the faith express a living reality that comes from the deepest parts of the personality. Second, he is also anxious that each Christian, and especially every teacher of the faith, should know how to build up the community in mutual love and support, rather than, by the wrong sort of teaching or behaviour, tearing it apart. ~ N. T. Wright

In God's providence we have four gospels! For Jesus Christ is too great and glorious a person to be captured by one author or one perspective. ~ John R.W. Stott

their great hope was to restore Western culture to its religious roots, to unleash the powers of the imagination, to reenchant the world through Christian faith and pagan beauty. ~ Philip Zaleski

Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us. ~ Brother Andrew

The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity. ~ Gloria Furman

We must give people the chance to change. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sky was overcast with thick, grey clouds drifting in the direction of Idasa. That meant rain. It would come, as long as the clouds drifted in that direction. Lightening flashes momentarily parted the clouds...Shango, the god of lightening and thunder, was registering his anger as this strange talk of a new God is taking hold of simple folk who were once unquestioning votaries of his order. The new malady must be nipped in the bud. ~ T.M. Aluko

Will Christians turn once again toward an approach that imposes its will on the rest of society? By doing so we would betray our founder, who resisted a temptation to authority over "all the kingdoms of the world," and who died a martyr at the hands of a powerful state. In the words of Miroslav Volf, "Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving - God's self-giving and human self-giving - and not about self-imposing." Even ~ Philip Yancey

When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him ... When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless ~ Max Lucado

May your heart be melted with faith, love and hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God is not afraid of pain. He does not try to keep us from it. He does not avoid it for Himself. ~ Rachel Phifer

Faith is a focus on God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In my view, it is inappropriate for us to refer to our confession as the Reformed Faith. The reformed churches did not (and do not) believe that they were confessing the Reformed Faith, but that they were confessing the "undoubted Christian Faith" in their confession and catechisms. There is a reason that this wing of the reformation called itself "Reformed." Unlike the Anabaptists, Reformed churches understood themselves as a continuing branch of the catholic church. At the same time, the Reformed wanted to reform everything "according to the Word of God." Not only our doctrine, but our worship and life must be determined by Scripture and not by human whim or creativity. ~ Michael S. Horton

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. ~ Mortimer Adler

As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation. ~ Adam Hamilton

God's peace and perspective are available to you through His Word. ~ Elizabeth George

If the Christian life seems boring,
I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG! ~ Edmund Lloyd Fletcher

A living faith, a glorious hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology. ~ John Gresham Machen

We put our hope and trust in the living God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Choose to dwell on timeless hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So there is nothing more vital for us to realize than this very thing: the Christian life, the Christian faith, is not something that we add on to what we have; it is something that is done to us. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith. ~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Hope makes the soul glad. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration. ~ John Stokes

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors. ~ Jim George