Top 100 The Christian Life Quotes
#1. Many times in the Christian life, we focus on the five-minute salvation experience rather than the lifetime of work the Lord will put into us and the many paths and instances we will find God.
Ricky Maye
#2. The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
Jonathan Edwards
#3. 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
#4. The benefits of a pure conscience comprise some of the greatest blessings of the Christian life.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
Tullian Tchividjian
#10. 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
#11. The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
Watchman Nee
#12. 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
#13. Living the Christian life means striving for holiness.
Billy Graham
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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.
#18. There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
David Lloyd-Jones
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others
Pope John Paul II
#24. Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#25. I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.
J. Sidlow Baxter
#26. The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless ... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#27. To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther
#28. The Christian life is a school of love and nobody graduates from it before the end of his life.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. But avoidance is only part of the biblical approach to media. The Christian life is not only concerned with avoiding immorality; it is also consumed with pursuing Christ. In putting off "the deeds of darkness," we must also "put on the armor of light" (Romans 13:12).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#30. I experienced one of the common miracles of the Christian life. Our spirits recognized each other.
Brother Andrew
#31. The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
Bill Hybels
#32. If the Holy Spirit is carefully and lovingly managing all our falls into sin and using them for God's glory and our good, then there is great cause for joy and peace whether you are leaping forward or crawling through the Christian life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#33. For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.
John Eldredge
#34. The Christian life is anything but boring.
Johnny Hunt
#35. 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
#36. The Christian life is Christ living through a man, not a man trying to be Christ.
Dan DeHaan
#37. The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God
it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#38. The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
C.S. Lewis
#39. The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.
Bill Hybels
#40. You shouldn't live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life
Sunday Adelaja
#41. The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
Mark Galli
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?
Elyse Fitzpatrick
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life
Gerald Vann
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.
Arthur W. Pink
#53. The joy of the Lord is our strength in the Christian life; unbelief is our Kryptonite.
Tony Reinke
#54. The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
William Penn
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.
Pope Francis
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. There is no plateau in the Christian life. We are either growing closer to Christ's likeness or we are falling away.
Aimee Byrd
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
Charles Stanley
#75. 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
#76. The purpose of the Christian life is to reveal Jesus Christ to the world.
Sunday Adelaja
#77. The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss ...
Huldrych Zwingli
#78. Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.
John F. MacArthur
#79. The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.
Kevin DeYoung
#80. Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#81. You see, the goal of the Christian life is not simply to get us into heaven, but to get heaven into us!
Richard J. Foster
#82. A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it.
Peter Kreeft
#83. The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.
Tullian Tchividjian
#84. The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections ... Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.
George MacDonald
#85. Ministry in no way is a privilege ... it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
Henri Nouwen
#86. The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#87. The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#89. friendship with God is the entire goal of the Christian life.
Lauren F. Winner
#90. The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.
Jim George
#91. Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.
J. Edwin Orr
#92. The Christian life is more than just commitment to Christ; it includes a commitment to other Christians.
Rick Warren
#93. We are called to service in the kingdom of God. The Christian life is not about what you claim. It is about what you believe. True belief cannot be separated from what we do.
Tyler Edwards
#94. The Christian life begins with a firm no to the lifestyle of the devil. We need to remember this. We cannot remain Christians if we do not keep saying no to temptation as we go through life. And - mark you - one cannot say no to the devil unless one has first spoken a big, powerful yes to Jesus.
Anthony M. Coniaris
#95. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.
Tim Tebow
#96. The goal of the Christian life is the pursuit of an intimate knowledge of God that leads to a greater estimation of His worth, a greater satisfaction and joy in His person, and a greater giving of oneself for His glory. As
Paul David Washer
#97. Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
Jonathan Edwards
#98. At the very outset of the Christian life these two things should be very distinct with you
sin which has ruined you, and Christ who has saved you.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#100. First, we need to understand theologically that the gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life, but it's also the fuel that keeps Christians going and growing every day.
Tullian Tchividjian
