Christian Life Quotes - Page 6

• Your words can permanently influence a life.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Influence

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• Now, brethren, this is one of our greatest faults in our Christian lives. We are allowing too many rivals of God. We actually have too many gods. We have too many irons in the fire. We have too much theology that we don't understand. We have too much churchly institutionalism. We have too much religion. Actually, I guess we just have too much of too much.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Fire, Iron

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• If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Christian, Omnipotence, Easy

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “The Vision of His Glory”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Life, Christian, Jesus

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1926-27”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Christian, Spiritual, Birth Defects

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• Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Age, Church

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Keys, Needs

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• Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Art, Blessing

  John Bunyan (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions”, p.116

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• Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites vou, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.

  William Whately

  Christian, Children, Blessing

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• We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Lifestyle

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• Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit.

  Derek Prince

  Christian, Effort, Spirit

  Derek Prince (2013). “By Grace Alone: Finding Freedom and Purging Legalism from Your Life”, p.27, Baker Books

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• We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Neighbor, Caught

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.309, Fortress Press

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• I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  "The Power of Prayer". Book by Wright L. Lassiter, p. 14, 2005.

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• The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Spiritual, Determination

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.45, Discovery House

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• Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

  Richard Sibbes

  Death, Christian, Blessing

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• I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.26

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• If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?

  Richard Baxter

  Death, Christian, Morning

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• Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general the whole of our Christian life begins with the proclamation that comes to us from one or several witnesses. But we ourselves must be personally involved in an intimate and profound relationship with Jesus.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Jesus, Profound

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• Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heartfelt, Essentials, Firsts

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• I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.

  Richard Baxter

  Faith, Men, Essentials

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

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• If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.

  Thomas Brooks

  Faith, Littles, Christianity

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.82

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• At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Christian, Dog

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• People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Thinking, People

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• Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Faith, Doctrine, Add

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