Disciplined Christian Quotes

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that. ~ Elisabeth Elliot

Those soldiers belonging to the victorious side whose blood has oozed into the ground and whose hearts have ceased beating, have they partaken in the triumph as well as those who are unscarred and busy draining cups of sake to each other's glorious deeds? I rather think they belong instead to the defeated."
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"You mean that those who are killed all belong to the defeated, regardless of which side they were on? ~ Erik Christian Haugaard

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of ... nothing. Just ... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?' ~ Christian Bale

Light of lights! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a gracious sacred-breathe. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous. ~ Robertson Davies

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace. ~ F.B. Meyer

I was missing lectures leading up to an essay test, so I went downstairs & got my textbook & pretended to study, with Animal Planet playing in the background. Everyone we learned about was either white or some sort of predecessor of the white, Christian world--as if the Stone Age, Bronze Age & Iron Age were just Greek & Roman stepping stones. As if everyone outside of Europe was still grunting & digging for grubs. As if China, centuries before Jesus started squalling in his crib, hadn't already kicked Europe's ass in technology & art. ~ L. Tam Holland

That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil. ~ Katherine Kurtz

...hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped. Hope is placing the beautifully vulnerable parts of ourselves, our raw selves, into His hands. I believe hope moves His heart; but hope also moves our hearts into His hands. Hope builds trust. ~ Natalie Brenner

Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs. ~ Sam Kinison

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched in the capital. ~ Gerald Coates

Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything ~ Catherine Marshall

Christian theism, to those who believe it, commends itself as fact, not theory, by the sheer multiplicity of its bearings. Were it a speculation, it would surely face a single field of enquiry: it would assign the cause of the world, or the principle of duty, or the aim of existence, or the means of spiritual regeneration. If an equal light falls from a single source in all these directions at once, that source must seem to have the richness of a reality, rather than the abstract poverty of an idea. ~ Jocelyn Gibb

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information. ~ Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?"
"Christian," corrected Lissa.
"Right."
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"So what brings you and Christopher here?" asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink.
"Christian," said Christian.
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Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. "But you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other." It went without saying what he meant by that. "Oh. And Kreskin too. ~ Richelle Mead

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct. ~ Jerry Bridges

I decided to throw out everything I thought I knew about following Christ, being a woman, being a godly wife, masculinity, and marriage. ~ April Cassidy

We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African ... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war! ~ Michael Jackson

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart! ~ Victor Manuel Rivera

It has often been noted that the biblical stories recounted in the Quran, especially those dealing with Jesus, imply a familiarity with the traditions and narratives of the Christian faith. ~ Reza Aslan

It's not about being a Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, or 5-Point Calvinist. God has only one family and, as Christians, we're in it! ~ Jim Cymbala

To be born again is to live through Jesus, to be mature is to let Jesus live through you! ~ Emmanuel Igunbor

I ... am endeavoring ... to attend to my own duty only as a Christian ... let us take care that our Christianity, though put to the test ... be not shaken, and that our love for things really good wax not cold. ~ William Samuel Johnson

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. ~ Albert Einstein

A glad heart is a flowing stream. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: To the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It's just a little thing, really. But do you think that when you're done smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you're at it ... do you think the rest of us could have our planet back? ~ Marcus Brigstocke

The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him. ~ Martin Luther

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness. ~ Rick Warren

You see what I mean? Being rich must be a condition, much like sickness or health. Say you are rich, you might, in some mysterious way, be rich forever, but however much money you have, you never feel properly rich. Maybe you need to believe in your wealth in order to be properly rich - I mean, the way saints and revolutionaries believe they are different. And you can't afford to feel guilty if you are rich: if you felt guilty for a second you'd be finished. The not-truly-rich, those who have visions of the poor while indulging in a beefsteak and drinking Champagne, will eventually lose out, because they are insincere in their wealth. They're not rich out of conviction, they are only pretending, cowardly, sneakily, to be rich. You have to be very disciplined to be rich. You can perform a few charitable acts, but only as a kind of a fig leaf. ~ Sandor Marai

Learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation. ~ Andrew Linzey

A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots. ~ Norm MacDonald

Among religious writings the Bible is unique in its attitude to its great men. Even many Christian biographies puff up the men they describe. But the Bible exhibits the whole man, so much so that it is almost embarrassing at times. If we would teach our children to read the Bible truly, it would be a good vaccination against cynical realism from the non-Christian side, because the Bible portrays its characters as honestly as any debunker or modern cynic ever could. ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

Perhaps you have never watched people go raving mad or drop dead because of blood shortages." Crimson. Starlight. The taste of death. The nightmare tugged at her mind. Ishtaka fought back, focusing her gaze on The Blood Waster. "Perhaps, because of all this, you are not used to our ways. Let me remind you: My clan collects every last drop of blood. Every. Last. Drop." Her lips curled over her fangs. "Understood? ~ Hannah Heath

It's a fairly simple rhetorical trick, the comic laundry list of the traveler's experiences, but it also calls attention to the writer's powers of observation and establishes that the writer's voice, rather than the subject matter, will be the star of the show. But it brings with it the risk of seducing the reader into loving the narrator and loathing the people described. Wallace called this 'the Asshole Problem. ~ Christian Lorentzen

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind. ~ Pope Leo XIII

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is. ~ A.W. Tozer

Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her. ~ Louie Giglio

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out. ~ Amanda Palmer

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. ~ Elizabeth George

All we want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful daughter; ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead - being my brothers' and sisters' keeper ... And I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God. ~ Barack Obama

Christians lost the battle in the public square over gay marriage because, frankly, we were outthought, outfought, and outmarketed on the issue. ~ Robert Jeffress

I am a Christian - but sometimes I feel very removed from Christianity. The Jesus Christ that I believe in was the man who turned over the tables in the temple and threw the money-changers out - substitute T.V. evangelists if you like ... why in the West, do we spend so much money on extending the arms race instead of wiping out malaria, which could be eradicated given ten minutes worth of the world's arm budget? To me, we are living in the most un-Christian times. When I see these racketeers, the snake-oil salesmen on these right-winged television stations, asking for not your $20.00, or your $50.00, but your $100.00 in the name of Jesus Christ, I just want to throw up!! ~ Bono