Christian Living Quotes - Page 15

God only requires two things from us. First, He asks that we stay unwavering in our knowledge that His faithful love endures forever. And second, He asks that we stay steadfast in our belief that His intentions are to bless and redeem. As we stand on these two truths, He strengthens our faith and increases our trust.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above. However the man may protest, the proof is in the choice he makes day after day throughout his life.

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit remind us that there is always more of God than we know, always more of God than we can explain, always more of God than we can show. The Trinity says God is not in a box but is bigger, much bigger than we imagine. God is more powerful than we sometimes want to believe or remember, but in remembering there is great comfort.

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

What makes Jesus remarkable is that He didn’t come to earth to lead, He came to serve.

The difference between where you are and where you ought to be may be hinged on information- Ifeoma Samuel 2015

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

God is the heavenly father.

For the place God calls us into isn’t doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics.

In the life of a Christian, there are no accidents, only Divine appointments.

Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself.

Many of us suffer because we think that if people don’t really love us, then we will have to live forever without love. But it’s not true. The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God’s love.

The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.

The desires of the flesh leads to sin.

This invitation [to deny oneself] is less about depriving the self, and more about disowning, or renouncing a relationship with the part of ourself that is not what God created us to be.

Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears.

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

Give people the chance to change their heart.