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• The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Humility, Opposites

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• We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, May

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• If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Spiritual, Source

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• God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true – that God loves us already – and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Believe, Becoming

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• The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• One of the commonest causes of failure in Christian life is found in the attempt to follow some good man whom we greatly admire. No man and no woman, no matter how good, can be safely followed. If we follow any man or woman, we are bound to go astray. There has been but one absolutely perfect Man on this earth-the Man Christ Jesus. If we try to follow any other man we are surer to imitate his faults than his excellencies. Look to Jesus and Jesus only as your Guide.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.120, Christian Publishing House

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• We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Saint, Abnormal, World

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• It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.

  Gene Edwards

  Christian, Father, Frustration

  Gene Edwards (1991). “The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?”, Christian Books Pub House

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• It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.

  George Muller

  Christian, Running, Prayer

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• If Jesus is Lord then the only right response to him is surrender and obedience. He is Savior and he is Lord. We cannot separate his demands from his love. We cannot dissect Jesus and relate only to the parts that we like or need. Christ died so that we could be forgiven for managing our own lives. It would be impossible to thank Christ for dying and yet to continue running our own lives.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Running, Jesus, Dying

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• John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.

  Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

  Christian, People, Decision

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• The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Knowing, Hearing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 112, 1895.

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• Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Christian, Personality, Community

  Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1985). “New Testament and Mythology: And Other Basic Writings”

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• The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

  Bill Vaughan

  Christian, Real, Dawn

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• The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

  Christian Scriver

  Jesus, Believe, Three

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.46

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• One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Humanity, Church

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• I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

  Keith Miller

  Christian, Adventure, Trying

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• The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Christian, Gratitude, Heart

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• The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God--it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Christian, Unions, Return

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life”, p.43, Moody Publishers

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• It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Earth

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• If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Life, Christian, Biblical

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• I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.

  Cliff Richard

  Christian, Art, Successful

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• We all long for someone to tell us who we are. 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

  Christian, Believe, Struggle

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words in which He reveals His goodness and grace, without substituting others or altering the precise modes and tenses which He has seen fit to use.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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