Top 100 Quotes About Christian Life
#1. Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!
Bill Johnson
#2. Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.
John F. MacArthur
#3. The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss ...
Huldrych Zwingli
#4. There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together.
Billy Graham
#5. The purpose of the Christian life is to reveal Jesus Christ to the world.
Sunday Adelaja
#6. Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That's the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.
Matt Chandler
#7. All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.
John Wycliffe
#8. A Christian of longer standing may not be spiritual, not because he has had insufficient time but because during the years of his Christian life he has not allowed the Holy Spirit to control him.
Charles C. Ryrie
#9. The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
Charles Stanley
#10. Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.
Horace Bushnell
#12. It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence
"Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."
Charles Spurgeon
#13. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.
Keith Miller
#14. Without a gospel-centered approach to productivity, we can easily fall into a law-based approach to the Christian life that kills our joy and freedom
Matt Perman
#15. We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
R.C. Sproul
#16. There is no plateau in the Christian life. We are either growing closer to Christ's likeness or we are falling away.
Aimee Byrd
#17. The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.
John Owen
#18. It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
Bill Vaughan
#19. Christian life isn't a one-person race. It's a relay. You are not alone; you're part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.
Christine Caine
#20. It seems to me clear from the whole New Testament that the Christian life has room both for a godly confidence and for a godly fear. The contrast between these is not a contradiction.
Lesslie Newbigin
#21. The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.
Pope Francis
#22. A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ... the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
Evelyn Underhill
#23. Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
David Lloyd-Jones
#25. People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.
David Lloyd-Jones
#26. Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point
a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go more and more toward a slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His highest
our best for His glory.
Oswald Chambers
#27. If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.
A.W. Tozer
#28. Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a very inadequate kind of Christian life.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#29. It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
John Stott
#30. Christ's sacrifice on the cross and resurrection out of the grave are big enough, grand enough, effective enough, and eternal enough to cover your shoddy Christian life,
Jared C. Wilson
#31. only one Person can live the Christian life, and that is Christ Himself; and only as I
trust Him to live His life in me, can I possibly live the quality of life that satisfies the heart of God and challenges the world in which I witness.19
Stephen Seamands
#32. I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.
Cliff Richard
#33. The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.
Charles R. Swindoll
#35. But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life.
R.C. Sproul
#36. Don't neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life.
Jim George
#37. Void of the right object, faith is nothing more than wishful thinking. It is pitiful and powerless. But placed in God, faith is the essence of salvation and the heart of the Christian life. The
Nathan Busenitz
#38. Personal piety and formal worship are essential to the Christian life, but they must lead to lives that "act justly and love mercy" (Mic. 6:8).
Steve Corbett
#39. Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.
Mark Dever
#40. We buy into the saving work of Jesus big-time, but we dodge his words and his life as prototypical for the authentic Christian life.
Hugh Halter
#41. It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.
Billy Graham
#42. The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!
W. Ian Thomas
#43. The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
William Penn
#44. Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.
Pope Francis
#45. Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.
Rudolf Bultmann
#46. The joy of the Lord is our strength in the Christian life; unbelief is our Kryptonite.
Tony Reinke
#47. The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.
Arthur W. Pink
#48. Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.
A.W. Tozer
#49. Spiritual victory is not something you earn - it is something you accept. The Christian life is not so much about what you have done - it's about what Christ has done. It's not so much about how strong you are - it's about how strong God is.
Alan D. Wright
#50. I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.
Francine Rivers
#51. We cannot take a step in our Christian life without the help of the Lord, because we are weak.
Pope Francis
#52. Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women in post-Christian America. The man whose desires are under the control of his reason is free. The man who does whatever occurs to him is a slave. Untold
Rod Dreher
#53. Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.
Francis Schaeffer
#54. Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.
John Piper
#55. If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.
Oswald Chambers
#56. We are not called to choose between a Christian life based on truth and doctrine or a life filled with spiritual power and experience. They go together.
Timothy Keller
#57. Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life
Gerald Vann
#58. God ... doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.
Miles J. Stanford
#59. One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
James Dobson
#60. Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?
Elyse Fitzpatrick
#61. Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope.
C.S. Lewis
#62. We will live an up-and-down Christian life if our faith is based on circumstances and not our faithful God. Stand firm in God's promises!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#63. Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#64. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#65. The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
Mark Galli
#66. For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy
#67. The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
Jonathan Edwards
#68. Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#69. The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#71. The benefits of a pure conscience comprise some of the greatest blessings of the Christian life.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#72. The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.
J.D. Greear
#73. To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.
Charles Hodge
#74. Self-denial is a necessary aspect of a Christian life; that the cross is central to human understanding; and that, without the atonement, every one of us would stand forever in the role of Judas.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#75. The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.
William Stringfellow
#76. The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.
Andrew Louth
#77. From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.
Iain H. Murray
#78. The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
Tullian Tchividjian
#79. The Christian life is the life of Jesus in me by the Holy Spirit. Christianity is not me striving to live like Jesus as a "thank-you" for saving me. Christianity is Christ taking up residence in me by the Holy Spirit and living His resurrection life through me.
James MacDonald
#80. It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.
Cal Thomas
#81. The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
Watchman Nee
#82. I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
Andy Griffith
#83. I'm not saying the Christian life is effortless; the real question is Where are we focusing our efforts? Are we working hard to perform? Or are we working hard to rest in Christ's performance for us?
Tullian Tchividjian
#84. Living the Christian life means striving for holiness.
Billy Graham
#85. The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.
Billy Graham
#86. Historically, the Christian life began with the public acknowledgment of two uncomfortable realities - evil and death - and in baptism, the Christian makes the audacious claim that neither one gets the final word.
Rachel Held Evans
#87. Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.
Martin Luther
#88. The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham
#89. John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.
Richard L. Pratt Jr.
#90. There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
David Lloyd-Jones
#91. The blessings God gives us must in turn become blessings to others, because Christians are supposed to be channels, not reservoirs. To receive God's blessings and then selfishly keep them is to violate one of the basic principles of the Christian life.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#92. Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian life cannot take part in deeds of violence. Of what value then to him are arguments about the imaginary advantages of doing what is morally impossible for him to do?
Leo Tolstoy
#94. It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.
David Jeremiah
#95. I think thanksgiving is the secret to a healthy Christian life.
Jefferson Bethke
#96. A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself.
Dan B. Allender
#97. I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.
Dick Van Dyke
#98. Bill Blankschaen is an emerging new voice in Christian life.
Hugh Hewitt
#99. That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going ... yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction ... or in pursuit of a precise goal.
Charles R. Swindoll
#100. It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian.
Seraphim Rose
