Christian Quotes - Page 11

Prayer and fasting is what every Christian needs because prayer empowers you while fasting humbles you to be a better child of God.

We came us spirit into the world. We shall depart us spirit out of the world.

My former bishop Allan Bjorberg once said that the greatest spiritual practice isn't yoga or praying the hours or living in intentional poverty, although these are all beautiful in their own way. The greatest spiritual practice is just showing up. And Mary Magdalene is the patron saint of just showing up. Showing up, to me, means being present to what is real, what is actually happening. Mary Magdalene didn't necessarily know what to say or what to do or even what to think when she encountered the risen Jesus. But none of that was nearly as important as the fact that she was present and attentive to him.

Jesus Christ seeks to save lost souls.

Watch out: the sheep in wolves clothes!

May God guide you on the new travel path.

If we study the Holy Scripture, the spirit shall minister to us the depths of truth of GOD.

A blessed hope, a blessed life.

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

Prayer is a path.

A man and a woman represent two heavenly beings.

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

In conversion, God interferes with out lives. We relinquish autonomy. If we find the gospel message to be true, we need to surrender to God and change our lives. For that reason - whether or not the trilemma or some form of it works - many will still never assent that Jesus is God.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.

Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian. What? Christian is singing softly to himself at the piano. Silence descends on us all as we strain to hear his soft, lyrical voice. I've heard him sing before, haven't they? He stops, suddenly conscious of the deathly hush that's fallen over the room. Kate glances questioningly at me and I shrug. Christian turns on the stool and frowns, embarrassed to realize he's become the center of attention.'Go on,' Grace urges softly. 'I've never heard you sing, Christian. Ever.

In the wilderness, we experience the faithfulness of God.

Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It’s God’s priceless gift to you.

Carry your cross and follow Christ.

Pray for God’s grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

True conscience is Christ.

In any situation, God's grace is sufficient.

I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.

Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.

You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

I remember when I was growing up and there would be sick people in the church. I was always so sensitive to them sitting in the pews alone, and I would not pass by without saying hello. But even at those tender ages of 5 through 14, I felt like they carried the plague, and after seeing them I would turn around praying really hard to never experience sickness like that, ever. I’d pray that I wouldn’t make God angry enough to curse me like that with really awful things, but I didn’t think about grace. I did not understand that it does not work that way, that God’s grace is so much bigger than our sin because of Jesus—but I do get it now. We go through what we do so that we can fulfill God’s glory in our lives.

Let men position you in the den, God will make you a Daniel in the den. Let men position you to face Goliath, God will make you a David. Let men subject you to undue pressure, torture and pain, blindfold you and lead you into the dungeon, God will make you a Samson there! Let men sell you into indentured servitude, God will make you Joseph. Let men build a death trap for you, God shall turn it into the days of Mordecai and Haman and you shall only see with your eyes the destruction of evil conspirators who would never repent! Let all odds be against you, God will make you Job. And when though fear grips your heart because of the storm you see, God will empower you and make you more than Peter. Stay hopeful! Trust in God!

O LORD GOD let thy glory fill the earth as it is in heaven.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

A world of goodness surrounds you.

Repentance is the gateway through which the Gospel can come to us. Repentance is the gateway to a joy-filled life with Christ, for it is the prerequisite for attaining forgiveness, and wherever forgiveness is received, there is salvation and joy.

Don’t let either hate or evil conquer you.

Read the scriptures daily.

When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.

Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't mean just being 'good' - it means being 'better' than others. Being better that others means having to see them as enemies - and making war on them. The fundamentalist views not being allowed to make war on their enemies as oppression of their faith, or defeat.

We are trying to find something to feel the void. It is only God who can fill the void.

The body is a temple, where God dwells.

My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.

I am in great spirit by God's grace.

Simple, powerful, poignant, the Sign of the Cross is a mnemonic device like the Mass, in which we sit down to table with one another and remember the Last Supper, or a baptism, where we remember John the Baptist's brawny arm pouring some of the Jordan River over Christ. So we remember the central miracle and paradox of the faith that binds us each to each: that we believe, against all evidence and sense, in life and love and light, in the victory of those things over death and evil and darkness.

No. No!” he says.“I . . .” He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine intervention? I don’t know.“You can’t go. Ana, I love you!”“I love you, too, Christian, it’s just—”“No . . . no!” he says in desperation and puts both hands on his head. “Christian .

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.' 1 Kings 17:14

There will be the IV poles, the divorce papers, the sound of dirt hitting a casket. We will have moments where we can't catch our breath and all the world seems wrong, and we can't help but wonder if He even cares.

Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God

In every circumstance, call out to Jesus Christ.

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

Every Christian must subject the rule of King Jesus Christ.

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.

Live in peace and harmony with all people.

The Bible is the most inspired book of all times.

We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn’t everything.

It is better to inquire of God than seek your own ways?

We belong to God.