Christian Quotes - Page 41

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Grace isn't meant to be fair, grace is meant to be good

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart’s truth.

The term “musalman” refers to someone with “musallam iman”, that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian.

Prayerful life must be desire by every Christian.

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God "richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment." He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us.

We wait expectantly for what we hope for.

Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.

God is forever faithful.

Dare to believe that you make a significant difference in our world.

When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

Don't forget Who you are writing for. It's easy to get discouraged when people don't like your writing, but that's just it. They're people. You don't want to serve people, you want to serve God. Write for Him, and ignore what other people say. It just doesn't matter.

May we love each other not only at Christmas but all year.

With Christ Jesus, we are overcomers.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Awaken the divinity of a sacred self.

A willing spirit is a divine-being.

We must give people the chance to change.

Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.

With Catty and Patrick's images in he side mirror waving from the steps of that house like Jethro and Ellie Mae, it occurred to me that something extraordinary had happened. I had effortlessly found a place of acceptance -- a place where people had taken me for me, not for what I could give them -- and I had left it.

Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul.

Happiness is not in the absence of challenges but the choice to dwell on infinite hope.

God is our Spiritual Father.

My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, “God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today.

People say, "How can God let that happen? How can God remain silent about all the wicked things that happen on earth, about all the terrible crimes that are committed?" And here again self-righteousness makes us blind and deaf.We no longer perceive how God speaks in judgment through wars and all the other troubles in the world. Yes, He is speaking powerfully. Such judgments are His last attempt to win us back in love.

Dance while you have strength.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Holy One is a flame.

For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.

What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appears, we can ask Him: were You here before?

Since God is with you and you are with God, you have nothing to fear!

The deeds and motive of man define his personality.

Joseph went from prison toprime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom.

When I leave this earthly home and go up to God to dwell, someone will look on the heaped up grave and whisper, "She tried to do well.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

Believe in God is the boldness of being.

When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn’t see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a servant of God and a soldier of the cross, a great threat to his kingdom.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well.

You can do great and mighty things by the power of God.

Sin leads to physical death in the spirit.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her."Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?""No, I was thinking maybe next April. Then you could maybe give her a call, arrange a date..."He arched his eyebrow in question, and snapped, "Yes, NOW.

Sin may appear good. But by God's commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.

Christ must be born from every soul, formed in every life. If we had a picture of Our Lady's personality we might be dazzled into thinking that only one sort of person could form Christ in himself, and we should miss the meaning of our own being.Nothing but things essential for us are revealed to us about the Mother of God: the fact that she was wed to the Holy Spirit and bore Christ into the world.Our crowning joy is that she did this as a lay person and through the ordinary daily life that we all live; through natural love made supernatural, as the water at Cana was, at her request, turned into wine.

She began sobbing again. “I’m not ready to die.

The power of prayer is the purity of life.

Path of life, path of light!

Why don't you read the Good News of God.

God willl the way.

Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God’s special possession.

...there is a constant theme at the centre of all her writings which forms the heart of her vision of God, From her earliest novel to the mature vision of her autobiography, the central importance of unity, reconciliation, one-ness, is reiterated; for she came increasingly to see everything in life, even the darkness of fear and pain and suffering, as part of the one perfect whole that is Creation, that tiny hazelnut of Dame Julian's vision that was all that is made.

The way of sin is physical death of soul.

The people living in land of deep darkness have seen a great light.

God hears every cry.

If the number of religious converts who converted during a season of intense suffering is high, then does that mean that the number of religious abstainers who abstained because their life was already satisfying is correspondingly low? If so, does this argue for or against religion’s relevance in the world? If theistic religion is attractive, useful, and remedial only for those broken people in the most dismal of needful situations, then is this truly the work of a God or is it just the human psyche gravitating toward a comforting solution?