Christians Living Quotes

#1. Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Mark Dever

#2. Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

Peter Hubbard

#3. As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

Kevin DeYoung

#4. Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.

Philip Yancey

#5. I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don't totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.

Billy Graham

#6. the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the saints of earlier centuries.

Ken Myers

#7. I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.

Marianne Williamson

#9. But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat.

David Mitchell

#10. Discouragement comes to those Christians, who are living and are working hard to fulfill their visions and callings

Sunday Adelaja

#11. It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.

Billy Graham

#12. our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. Christians are to be living epistles, written by God and read by men (2 Cor. 3:2).

Greg Laurie

#13. As far as Luke is concerned, two things bring Christians joy: contemplating salvation and the honor of being dishonored for Jesus' sake.

William J. Larkin Jr.

#14. Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

Zig Ziglar

#15. ...Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.

John Main

#16. Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture.

Eugene H. Peterson

#17. Christians should be well versed in what the Bible has to say about human sexuality and economic issues as well as effective methods of compassion for helping the poor and most vulnerable if we hope to gain a hearing with those living in our urban areas.

Christopher W. Brooks

#18. It is through us Christians that the world must know the love of the Savior

Sunday Adelaja

#19. In sorrow and in pain, still do remember your Master Jehovah; He can make things that do not matter, matter.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.

Hassan Nasrallah

#21. Many Christians live as if salvation is the only reason Jesus died. Christ died so we would die to sin and live to righteousness (1Peter 2:24) This is a life long discipline that we must exercise every moment. His marvelous grace does not excuse us from His expectations of holy living.

William Branks

#22. Jesus of Nazareth was a real man, living and dying at a turbulent moment in real space-time history. His message, and the message about him that the early Christians called good news, was not about how to escape that world. It was about how the one true God was changing it, radically and forever.

N. T. Wright

#23. I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

A.B. Simpson

#24. Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#25. Too many Christians have substituted comfortable living for a life changed by the gospel.

David Kinnaman

#26. I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#27. The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

C.S. Lewis

#28. God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#29. We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.

Pope John Paul II

#30. Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

David Wilkerson

#31. Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That's why unity in the body of Christ is so important.

Elizabeth George

#32. Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.

Priscilla Shirer

#33. It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).

Jerry Bridges

#34. Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life

Sunday Adelaja

#35. Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

John Eldredge

#36. Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

Timothy Keller

#37. We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#38. If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

Philip Schaff

#39. It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

Rowan Williams

#40. We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

Khaled Mashal

#41. We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about.

G.K. Chesterton

#42. The problem Christians have isn't our belief in what God could do, but on what God should do.

Todd Stocker

#43. Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. Christians take pride in proclaiming they are sheep, the most stupid of all mammals, incapable of defending themselves, living only to feed, multiply, and be fleeced periodically.

Ralph Perier

#45. Music lifted our spirit and awakens our soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.

Phil Pringle

#47. The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world.

Billy Graham

#48. It never ceases to amaze me when God wants to take someone to the next level in their life and they let fear of the unknown rob them of tremendous blessings. I think there are two common problems with Christians- They are scared to death of being truly free and of God's overwhelming love.

R. Alan Woods

#49. Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

Watchman Nee

#50. If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, What version of Christ does he believe in?

Shannon L. Alder

#51. Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as - and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be - lost and hopeless and just barely clinging to any kind of interior sense of value or reason or even to go on living, before they were 'saved.

David Foster Wallace

#52. You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living up to them. Similarly, not all liberals are living up to the tenets of liberalism.

Ann Coulter

#53. We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?

Francine Rivers

#54. Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are "The Commanded Conjoined Twins" for Jesus Followers; they must never be separated if we wish to obey Jesus' "Platinum Rule"!

Gary Patton

#55. There are too many over-fed, under-motivated Christians hiding behind the excuse that God has not spoken to them. They are waiting to hear voices or see dreams - all the while living to make money, to provide for their future, to dress well and have fun.

Floyd McClung

#56. In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

Tony Campolo

#57. We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

G.K. Chesterton

#58. The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, all with their own connections to the spiritual aspects of food and with lessons that we can learn from each other.

Marcus Samuelsson

#59. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy ... He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#60. An unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after the apostles.

Tony Jones

#61. So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.

William Jay

#62. Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

Brennan Manning

#63. It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.

Mark Driscoll

#64. It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are starving. Creation is good. But the one who gave us this gorgeous token of his affection has asked us to share it with our sisters and brothers.

Ronald J. Sider

#65. For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.

Katharine Hayhoe

#66. I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

Barbara Ehrenreich