Christian Quotes SearchFound 100 quotes matching your search:  When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Prayer | | It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Faith | | To a true child of God, the invisible bond that unites all believers to Christ is far more tender, and lasting, and precious; and, as we come to recognize and realize that we are all dwelling in one sphere of life in Him, we learn to look on every believer as our brother, in a sense that is infinitely higher than all human relationships. This is the one and only way to bring disciples permanently together. All other plans for promoting the unity of the Church have failed. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Unity | | Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Prayer, Providence | | The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Prayer, Trust | | Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Jesus, Salvation | |
| | We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not "disciplined"? Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: Christianity Today, November 20, 1987.
Topics: Discipline, Liberty | | God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Money, Giving | | The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Church, Heaven | | You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation. Author: Alan Keyes
Topics: God, America | | I have something which enables me to take it in the face of all the buffeting that comes my way, for I can always find resources that are adequate to take the knocks. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Suffering, Grace | | A 'disorderly walk' denotes conduct that is in any way contrary to the rules of Christ. The word would include any violation of the rules of Christ. Author: Albert Barnes
Topics: Rebellion | | Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Service | | By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Life | | Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Kindness, Service | | No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us and done, that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant. Accomplished, they are full of blessing, and there is a smile on their faces as they leave us. Undone, they stand threatening and disturbing our tranquillity, and hindering our communion with God. If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink, go straight up to it, and do it at once. The only way to get rid of it is to do it. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Responsibility | | To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we "being in the way," the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Joy | | It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Jesus | | A man who has not learned to say "no"--who is not resolved that he will take God's way in spite of every dog that can bark at him, in spite of every silvery voice that can woo him aside--will be a weak and wretched man till he dies. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Weakness | | I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Prayer | | Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Prayer | | The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation. Author: Alistair Begg
Topics: Salvation | | If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Sin | | If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Gossip | | Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you! Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: The Bible | | We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets... Author: Andrew Bonar
Topics: Prayer | | Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Prayer, Intercession | | Now, it should not surprise us that there are strong deceptions or "powerful delusions" around today, for this is exactly what the Scriptures predict will happen. All the way through the New Testament we are warned of these days - over and over again. Author: Andrew Strom
Topics: Deception | | If you have been touched or involved in any way with manifestations or experiences that you think may not have been from God, then I urge you to utterly RENOUNCE (with your mouth, but also from the depths of your very being in Jesus' name) any links or involvement with that experience or 'anointing'. Author: Andrew Strom
Topics: Repentance, Deception | | No science is ever frightening to Christians. Religious people don't need the science to come out any particular way on IQ or AIDS or sex differences any more than they need the science to come out any particular way on evolution...If evolution is true, then God created evolution. Author: Ann Coulter
Topics: Evolution | Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.
- Amy Carmichael Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Faith, Holiness, Disappointment | A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold Glasow Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Friendship | Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.
- Augustus Toplady Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Charity, Wealth | Let no man carry you beyond the bounds God hath set for you, nor make you believe he hath found a plainer or more certain way to heaven than Christ hath given us.
- Edward Stillingfleet Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Contentment | The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
- Elton Trueblood Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Happiness | To meet Jesus is to look yourself in the pocketbook, which is the most unmistakable way of looking yourself in the heart.
- J. Robert Ross Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Finances, The Heart | God hath divers ways into divers men. Into some he comes at noon, in the sunshine of prosperity; to some in the dark and heavy clouds of adversity. Some he affects with the music of the church; some, with some particular collect or prayer; some, with some passage of a sermon, which takes no hold of him that stands next to him. Watch the way of the Spirit of God into thee.
- John Donne Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Holy Spirit, Music, Prosperity | The Christian religion made its way through Paganism, unassisted by the force of human power, and as gentle as the triumphs of light over darkness.
- Joseph Addison Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: History | A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
- Mark Twain Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Lying | The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."
- Peter Kreeft Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Hell | We can do more good by being good than in any other way.
- Rowland Hill Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Service | There is a perpetual frost in the pockets of some rich people; as soon as they put their hands into them, they are frozen so they cannot draw out their purses. Had I my way, I would hang all misers; but reversing the common mode, I would hang them up by the heels, that their money might run out of their pockets.
- Rowland Hill Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Finances, Greed, Money | The whole way from Syria to Rome, chained as I am to half a score of soldiers, who only grow more insolent the more bribes they are given. I look forward to the real lions that have been prepared for me. Oh I pray, as I will find them swift. I am going to make overtures to them, so that they may devour me with all speed."
- Ignatius of Antioch Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Suffering | | We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands Necessity saying: 'This way, please.' Do not hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you. Author: Augustine
Topics: Death | | Salvation is God's way of making us real people. Author: Augustine
Topics: Salvation | | Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Prayer | | Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Conversion | | To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Examples, Children | | Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind of a chance to get our children. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Examples, Children | | The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards -- to put the business that makes drunkards out of business. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Drunkenness | | God keeps no half-way house. It's either heaven or hell for you and me. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Heaven, Hell | | I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Preaching | | Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Apathy | | The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Apathy | | One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings. Author: Brother Lawrence
Topics: Prayer | | Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Case for Christianity
Topics: Conscience | | The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Surprised by Joy
Topics: Happiness | | The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Screwtape Letters
Topics: Pride | | Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: The Bible | | There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Contentment, Rebellion | | Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Contentment | | God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn... That is why it is no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Mere Christianity.
Topics: Happiness | | In some way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Eternity, Love | | A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice. Author: Charles H. Brent
Topics: Prayer, Patience, Waiting | | The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Church | | In many things a comprehensive survey of a subject is the shortest way of getting at a precise knowledge of a particular division of it. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Perseverance | | Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Foolishness, Cheerfulness, Thankfulness | | A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Church, Holy Spirit | | A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Lying | | We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Examples, Faithful | | God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 56.451.
Topics: Giving | | God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Expiation, Sermon 561, Isa. 53:10.
Topics: Justice, Mercy | | I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Apathy | | I rejoice to know that the souls of all infants, as soon as they die, speed their way to Paradise. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermon, A Defense of Calvinism.
Topics: Death, Children | | In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Giving | | It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within---a very volcano of grief and sorrow--it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer | | Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Prayer Meetings, August 30th, 1868.
Topics: Prayer, Holy Spirit, Power | | Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Praise | | Some Christians overlook the blessing of sanctification, and yet to a thoroughly renewed heart this is one of the sweetest gifts of the covenant. If we could be saved from wrath, and yet remain unregenerate, impenitent sinners, we should not be saved as we desire, for we mainly and chiefly pant to be saved from sin and led in the way of holiness. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Treasury of David, Psalm 23.
Topics: Sanctification | | The best way to deal with slander is to pray about it: God will either remove it, or remove the sting from it. Our own attempts at clearing ourselves are usually failures; we are like the boy who wished to remove the blot from his copy, and by his bungling made it ten times worse. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Treasury of David, Commentary for Psalm 119:20.
Topics: Gossip | | There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keeping God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Faith | | Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that way yourself. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Children, Examples | | God has a course mapped out for your life, and all the inadequacies in the world will not change His mind. He will be with you every step of the way. And though it may take time, He has a celebration planned for when you cross over the Red Seas of your life. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: God, Life | | The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Religion, Deception | | God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!' Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: Surrender | | Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies. Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: Relationships | | We have cultivated and developed this idea that if you're not fulfilled, if it's not ooey-gooey, if things aren't going you way, if you don't feel accepted, affirmed, then you must be with the wrong person, so find the right person. Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: Romance | | What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle. Author: Chuck Baldwin
Topics: Abortion, Politics | | We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Attitude, Change | | When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Topics: God, Beauty | | You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality . Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Children, Legalism | | Emmanuel. God with us. He who resided in Heaven, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, willingly descended into our world. He breathed our air, felt our pain, knew our sorrows, and died for our sins. He didn't come to frighten us, but to show us the way to warmth and safety. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Source: The Finishing Touch. Christianity Today, v. 40, n. 14.
Topics: The Trinity, Salvation | | It is a very human trait in us to feel that another's advancement is in some way a blow to ourselves. It is equally a human trait to feel that another's downfall and disgrace in some way adds a bit of luster to our own crowns. Of course, nothing could be more utterly false. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Envy | | Whenever you make up your mind to refuse to go where God wants you to go and to do what God wants you to do, you must make up your mind at the same time to renounce the friendship of God. You cannot walk with Him and at the same time be in rebellion against Him. God has no possible way of entering into fellowship with the soul that is disobedient to His will. Believe me, it is absolutely useless, it is mere mockery, to say "Lord, Lord" and then refuse to do the things that He commands you to do. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Backsliding | | We cannot all go to the foreign field. We must express our interest in those who have not had our opportunities by our gifts. Much of the service we render in our own land must be rendered in the same way. But when that is said, the fact still remains that there is nothing that will take the place of our hand-to-hand dealing with those who need us. We cannot perform all our charities by proxy. We must come in personal contact with those whom we would help. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Missions, Charity | | Whatever failure you and I make of our lives, we do not make because God forces us to do so. In whatever way we go wrong, we do not do so because God planned that we should. We do it because of our own willfulness and wicked rebellion against God. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Failure | | The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Satan, Enemies, Victory | | Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Prayer | | Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Salvation | | Believing and confessing go together; and you cannot be be saved without you take them both. "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation." If you ever see the kingdom of heaven you have to take this way. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Believing, Confession |
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: | Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Humility, Helping, Unity | | Superficial Christians are apt to be eccentric. Mature Christians are so near the Lord that they are not afraid of missing His guidance. They are not always trying to promote their loyalty to God by their independence from others. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Apathy | | There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Trials | | Justification is away beyond anything that a human court of justice ever realizes. It is putting the sinner in the condition before God as if he had never sinned at all. It is giving him a standing in the merit of Jesus Christ of absolute innocency before God. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Justification | | A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Church, Evangelism | | At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Good and Evil | | God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: God | | If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! If you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "The very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Prayer, Strength | | If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Missions | | Faithful people have always been in a marked minority. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Faithful | | If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must be abandoned. Anything in my habits or ways which mars happy fellowship with the brethren or robs me of power in service, is to be unsparingly judged and made an end of-- 'burned.' Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Work, Habits | | One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Life, Church, Unity | | Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Salvation, Choices | | Now, as always, God discloses Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond. Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: The Pursuit of God
Topics: Humility | | What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him. Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: Men Who Met God, Christianity Today, v. 31, n. 1.
Topics: Christians | | The "book of nature" must always be read in light of God's special revelation, the Bible. Author: Abraham Kuyper
Topics: The Bible | | If the Lord should always be swift to hear us, how slow should we be in hearing him, and while we have our desires, forget most of our duties. Author: Abraham Wright
Topics: Apathy | | The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for His own people - that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for the final trumpet that will announce His return, when we shall always be with Him. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Christmas | | Christians should be grave and serious, though cheerful and pleasant. They should feel that they have great interests at stake, and that the world has too. They are redeemed--not to make sport; purchased with precious blood--for other purposes than to make men laugh. They are soon to be in heaven--and a man who has any impressive sense of that will habitually feel he has much else to do than to make men laugh. The true course of life is midway between moroseness and levity; sourness and lightness; harshness and jesting. Be benevolent, kind, cheerful, bland, courteous--but serious. Be solemn, thoughtful, deeply impressed with the presence of God and with eternal things--but pleasant affable and benignant. Think not a smile sinful; but think not levity and jesting harmless. Author: Albert Barnes
Topics: Christians | | We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. Author: Albert Barnes
Topics: Thankfulness | | I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Compassion, Friendship | | Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Service | | Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Blessings, Beauty | | Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Truth, Time | | "I am going down into the pit; you hold the ropes,"; said Carey the pioneer missionary. They that hold the ropes, and the daring miner that swings away down in the darkness, are one in work, may be one in the motive, and, if they are, shall be one in the reward. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Helping, Rewards | | Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Kindness | | The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Prayer | | If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith | | You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: SIn, Mercy, Comfort | | And as grace is free, so is it sure. Nothing can change, or alter, or turn away sovereign grace. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Grace | | No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart. Increasing prayer!--Increasing faith!--Increasing Christ in the heart!. Much prayer!--Much faith!--Much Christ in the heart! Praying always!--Faith always!--Christ always! Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Prayer | | But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Grace | | If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Prayer | | Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. Author: Alexandre Vinet
Topics: Character | | If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Gossip | | You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Giving, Love | | Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones... Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely! Author: Andrew Bonar
Topics: Revival, Zeal | | Christ will always accept the faith the puts its trust in Him. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Faith, Trust | | While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Renewal, Prayer, Evangelism | I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Laziness | Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
- Daniel Defoe Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Justice | Whenever God erects a house of prayer, the devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
- Daniel Defoe Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Satan, Church | We are sinners simply because we choose to sin or live selfishly. We are never held accountable for what we are not the author of. Ability is always the measure of responsibility. God has given us the ability to direct our lives, either according to intelligence in recognition of our obligation to God and our fellowmen, or according to selfishness and unintelligence in the supreme seeking of our own happiness.
- Gordon Olson Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Obedience, Responsibility | It was always about mere questions that the Pharisees were so busy.
- Johann Albrecht Bengel Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Hypocrisy | A man with God is always in the majority.
- John Knox Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Holiness | The mind of him that worketh ill is not always corrupt; but the mind of him that defendeth evil is ever corrupt.
- Lancelot Andrewes Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Good and Evil | What can be lighter than a burden which takes our burdens away, and a yoke which bears up the bearer himself?
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Trials | Your actions, in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Good and Evil, Work, Eternal Life | No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.
- Venerable Bede Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Sin | | God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. Author: Augustine
Topics: God | | Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. Author: Augustine
Topics: Prayer, The Tongue | | What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. Author: Augustine
Topics: Achievement | | Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee. Author: Augustine
Topics: Worship | | Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy. Author: Augustine
Topics: Holy Spirit | | God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. Author: Augustine
Topics: Providence | | You called, You cried, You shattered my deafness, You sparkled, You blazed, You drove away my blindness, You shed Your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You. Author: Augustine
Topics: God | | Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor. Author: Basilea Schlink
Topics: Laziness, Perseverance | | In the darkest of nights cling to the assurance that God loves you, that He always has advice for you, a path that you can tread and a solution to your problem--and you will experience that which you believe. God never disappoints anyone who places his trust in Him. Author: Basilea Schlink
Topics: Assurance | | A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Revival, Conviction, Backsliding | | The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: The Bible | | When I hit the devil square in the face some people go away as mad as if I had slapped them in the mouth. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Satan | | If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Reasoning, The Future | | Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Morality, Knowledge, Affliction | | We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Love | | You always admire what you really don't understand. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Reasoning | | As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Happiness | | The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Life, The Future | | The idea of turning your music into a tool for evangelism is missing the point. Music is the language of the spirit anyway. Its first function is praise to creation. Author: Bono
Topics: Music | | Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility. Author: Brother Lawrence
Topics: Worship | | I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God. Author: Brother Lawrence
Topics: Prayer, Worship | | To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him? Author: Brother Lawrence
Topics: Worship | | Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Case for Christianity
Topics: Christianity | | Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
Topics: Philosophy | | You have gone into the Temple and found Him, as always, there. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: from a letter "To A Lady"
Topics: God | | All joy emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Contentment, Joy | | The difference God's timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Letters (1 August 1949)
Topics: God, Eternity | | The gravitation away from God, 'the journey homeward to habitual self', must, we think, be a product of the Fall. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Problem of Pain
Topics: Rebellion | | Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Giving | | A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Salvation | | Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Satan | | Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Virtue, Power | | Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only (upon) the Beloved who will never pass away. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Happiness | | If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Charity | | In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying "Fear not." The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, "There, there." Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Angels | | The curse, of this age especially, is unbelief, frittering the real meaning of God's word away, and making it all figure and fiction. Author: Catherine Booth
Topics: Unbelief | | In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness. The Christian finds this to be true in his individual experience. It dissipates his doubts; it drives away his fears; it delivers him from the power of Satan. Author: Charles Hodge
Source: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, Baker Book House, 1980
Topics: Scripture | | These glorious things - words - are man's right alone. Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves. Author: Charles Kingsley
Topics: Reasoning, Feelings | | Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificied on the altar of conformity and popularity. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Character | | The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Miracles, Jesus, The Gospel | | You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Achievement | | Throughout the Old Testament this was always the idea of a sin-offering - that of a perfect victim; without offense on its own account, taking the place of the offender; the transferrence of the offender's sin to that victim, and that expiation in the person of the victim for the sin done by another. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Expiation, Sermon 561, Isa. 53:10.
Topics: Atonement | | A man's life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of onlookers accept his practice and reject his preaching. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Life, Examples | | in its substance has been removed, and only the shadow of it remains... Nobody is afraid of a shadow, for a shadow cannot block a man's pathway for even a moment. The shadow of a dog can't bite; the shadow of a sword can't kill. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Death, Redemption | | Drunkenness is the devil's back door to hell and everything that is hellish. For he that once gives away his brains to drink is ready to be caught by Satan for anything. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 46.64.
Topics: Drunkenness | | Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: When a Preacher is Downcast.
Topics: Depression | | Hang this question up in your homes - "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another - "How would Jesus do it?" For what Jesus would do, and how He would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Examples, Jesus | | I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer, Intercession | | I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Preaching | | I am glad there is no such thing as "chance," that nothing is left to itself, but that Christ everywhere has sway. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christ | | I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Depression, Trust |
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