Top 100 Us Christian Quotes
#1. In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
Jon Meacham
#2. Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.
Hans Rookmaaker
#3. The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#4. All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.
Diadochos Of Photiki
#5. When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
Elizabeth George
#6. Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian
discipleship.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#7. What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
Corrie Ten Boom
#8. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
Joshua Harris
#11. The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe ...
William Lane Craig
#12. Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.
Eugene H. Peterson
#13. But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.
David Jeremiah
#14. Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.
Tim LaHaye
#15. Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.
Christian Wiman
#16. As we trust the Lord, we start "emptying" ourselves with things that tie us or entangle us in order to be filled by God's grace and the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.
Yilda B. Rivera
#17. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.
Charles Stanley
#18. Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and "chime in" with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness. If
Alister E. McGrath
#19. 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
#20. We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.
Mark Batterson
#21. I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
David Christian
#22. A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#23. It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us on the classic "rock stage," instead of trying to find new ways to present the music.
Christian Fennesz
#24. Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
Charles Studd
#25. Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
Vance Havner
#26. When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves
that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.
N. T. Wright
#27. while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.
John Mark Reynolds
#28. That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.
Seanan McGuire
#29. Everyday should be Christmas. Christ first loved us, we ought to love one another.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.
Gus Hall
#31. A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.
George Whitefield
#32. Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.
Criss Jami
#33. Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.
Bucky Sinister
#34. We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
Vance Havner
#35. It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.
Joyce Meyer
#36. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
Jerry Bridges
#38. We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#39. God doesn't promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.
Jim George
#40. We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
Max Lucado
#44. Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation
Pope Francis
#45. God loves our attention, sometimes adversity is away to draw us closer to Him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
C.S. Lewis
#47. [Mary] says her memories
Will help those of us
Newly come to our Lord's mercy,
To live in His light.
Jessica Coupe
#48. Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.
Peter Forsyth
#49. Christian growth does not involve becoming stronger and stronger, more and more competent every day. It involves becoming more and more aware of how weak and incompetent we are and how strong and competent Jesus was and continues to be for us.
Tullian Tchividjian
#50. I'm not afraid to play the role of Christian Grey. Because I'm not like him. But I perfectly understand him. I never thought that he was a monster. He is simply woven from desires. As every one of us.
Jamie Dornan
#51. You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
Elisabeth Elliot
#52. We do fall away from faith. God's grace gives us strength to rise again.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
Vance Havner
#54. The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
Timothy Keller
#55. Us and them" religion is poison to the soul, and it often takes a lifetime of humiliation to detoxify us from it. In the Christian tradition, those who are
Jonathan Martin
#56. Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
Cynthia Hand
#57. I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we're really committed to Him. But what if it's designed as God's way of giving us what's best for us?
Craig Groeschel
#58. It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.
Roy Hession
#59. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
Rachel Held Evans
#60. In order for us to learn to love, first ourselves and the others, we must accept Jesus' love for us in the deepest parts of our hearts.
Sara Dormon
#61. The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
Charles L. Allen
#62. The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.
John Shelby Spong
#63. For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism
Jim Cymbala
#64. Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.
Kenneth Boa
#65. We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.
Eugenie De Guerin
#66. Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way
Ricky Maye
#67. Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!
Pope Francis
#69. The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#70. Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.
John Mott
#71. A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.
Ann Hasseltine Judson
#72. We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#73. And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
Chris Tomlin
#74. We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.
Pope Francis
#75. All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
Saint Francis De Sales
#76. The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
Kathleen Norris
#77. The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#78. Honestly," continued Isaiah, watching Christian, "I can't decide which I want more: to kill you or have you join us. Either option offers its own amusements."
"Don't you ever get tired of hearing yourself talk?" asked Christian.
Richelle Mead
#79. To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.
Max Lucado
#80. We are to be lights in the world. It is God's business to light us, to set us on the lampstand, and to bring the people into the house. Our only duty is to shine forth with the gospel.
Marva J. Dawn
#81. Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.
Richard Rorty
#82. The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
A.B. Simpson
#83. Being a Christian doesn't mean trouble never comes our way, Zach. It just means God is here, and He gives us the grace to get through the heartache.
Colleen Coble
#84. The path of the Christian life often leads in the opposite direction of the world around us.
Anonymous
#86. Let us constantly bear in mind the rules and principles of Christian warfare; namely, that we conquer by yielding, we receive by giving, we overcome by being defeated, and we live by dying. There is no other way except the way of the Cross.
George Warnock
#88. I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.
Rami Malek
#89. Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.
James Anthony Froude
#90. Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
Matt Chandler
#91. God wants us to believe in something bigger and better than ourselves.
Jessica Lowery
#92. A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.
Elizabeth George
#93. We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
Angela Merkel
#94. In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.
Pope Francis
#95. Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
Richard Sibbes
#96. Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.
Jennifer Smith
#97. Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.
William Law
#98. God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.
John Eldredge
#99. Forgiveness can be the one thing that truly holds us back in our Christian walk.
Karen Kingsbury
#100. This would be a perfect day if Ray were here with us, but he's not far away. He's doing well, and I know he'd like to enjoy yourself, Ana. To all of you, thank you for coming to share my beautiful wife's birthday, the first of many to come. Happy birthday, my love. - Christian Grey
E.L. James
