Browsing Topic Best Great Christian Quotes

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy … I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way?

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest – what we call investment – is the basis of our whole system.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man; but one time, he was living with a white family and this white family robbed him of what he earned. They didn’t pay him anything. This white man gave him $150 to go to the hill, (you see, I lived in the Black Belt of Mississippi)… to get another Negro family. Joe Pulliam knew what this white man had been doing to him so he kept the $150 and didn’t go.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be perfect men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn’t a Christian

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.