Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 17

• They lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.321

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• Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Jesus, Fall

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• When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Joel Osteen (2015). “Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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• At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

  Josemaria Escriva

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

  Saint Boniface

  Inspirational, Stress, Responsibility

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• As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.204, Discovery House

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• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

  Gregory Palamas

  Death, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Faith, Christian

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• For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, God, Christian

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• Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

  Rob Bell

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Rob Bell from Jul 15, 2012

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• True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

  Francis Chan

  Faith, Hope, Religious

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.97, David C Cook

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• We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

  Francis Chan

  God, Religious, Preacher

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• Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

  Frederick Buechner

  God, Faith, Religious

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• God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

  N. T. Wright

  Relationship, Beauty, Faith

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• All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Religious, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

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• Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Prayer

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• When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heartbreak, God, Disappointment

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

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• Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

  Oral Roberts

  Inspirational, God, Faith

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• To err is human, to forgive is divine.

  Helen Prejean

  Forgiveness, Christian, Mistake

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