What are your favorite Christian quotes?
Here's some to get started.
"Lord grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference."
Saint Francis of Assisi
"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."
Mother Teresa
Christian Quotes
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Some of my favorite quotes:
If any of these are repeats... oh well! They're still good! None of them are from the Bible. If I listed my favorite Bible quots... this post would go on FOREVER (or at least until the entire Bible were posted)!
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car."
-John Piper
"You changed Your ways, leaving Your plans unchanged; You recovered what You have never really lost. You are never in need but still You rejoice at Your gains;"
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Book 1
"Have mercy that I may speak. What am I to You that You should command me to love You, and if I do not, are angry and threaten vast misery? Is it, then, a trifling sorrow not to love You? It is not so to me. Tell me, by Your mercy, O Lord, my God, what You are to me. 'Say to my soul, I am your salvation.' So speak that I may hear. Behold, the ears of my heart are before You, O Lord; open them and 'say to my soul, I am your salvation.' I will hasten after that voice, and I will lay hold upon You."
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Chapter 5
"Let him still rejoice and continue to ask, 'What is this?' Let him also rejoice and prefer to seek You, even if he fails to find an answer, rather than to seek an answer and not find You!"
The Confessions of Saint Augustine Chapter 6
"Christianity was never intended to replace or supercede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at it's disposal."
- C. S. Lewis
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
- C. S. Lewis
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
- C. S. Lewis
"The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again."
—C. H. Spurgeon
"My heart aches for a love that only God can give and until I fully realize that, I will never know peace."
-Valerie (a friend of mine)
"Because man fell through pride, He applied humility as a cure. We were trapped by the wisdom of the serpent; we are freed by the foolishness of God. Just as that which was called wisdom was foolishness in those who condemned God, thus this which is called foolishness is wisdom in those who conquer the Devil."
Saint Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
Section XIV, Book I
"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"
- C. S. Lewis
AND OF COURSE!!!
The quote on my signature.
If any of these are repeats... oh well! They're still good! None of them are from the Bible. If I listed my favorite Bible quots... this post would go on FOREVER (or at least until the entire Bible were posted)!
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car."
-John Piper
"You changed Your ways, leaving Your plans unchanged; You recovered what You have never really lost. You are never in need but still You rejoice at Your gains;"
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Book 1
"Have mercy that I may speak. What am I to You that You should command me to love You, and if I do not, are angry and threaten vast misery? Is it, then, a trifling sorrow not to love You? It is not so to me. Tell me, by Your mercy, O Lord, my God, what You are to me. 'Say to my soul, I am your salvation.' So speak that I may hear. Behold, the ears of my heart are before You, O Lord; open them and 'say to my soul, I am your salvation.' I will hasten after that voice, and I will lay hold upon You."
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Chapter 5
"Let him still rejoice and continue to ask, 'What is this?' Let him also rejoice and prefer to seek You, even if he fails to find an answer, rather than to seek an answer and not find You!"
The Confessions of Saint Augustine Chapter 6
"Christianity was never intended to replace or supercede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at it's disposal."
- C. S. Lewis
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
- C. S. Lewis
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
- C. S. Lewis
"The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again."
—C. H. Spurgeon
"My heart aches for a love that only God can give and until I fully realize that, I will never know peace."
-Valerie (a friend of mine)
"Because man fell through pride, He applied humility as a cure. We were trapped by the wisdom of the serpent; we are freed by the foolishness of God. Just as that which was called wisdom was foolishness in those who condemned God, thus this which is called foolishness is wisdom in those who conquer the Devil."
Saint Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
Section XIV, Book I
"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"
- C. S. Lewis
AND OF COURSE!!!
The quote on my signature.
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