Christianity Quotes - Page 25

• Saints are sinners who kept on going.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

  Grover Cleveland

  Teaching, Patriotic, Godly

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Mean, Patriotic

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.112

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• Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

  Charles Brent

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  Charles Henry Brent (1915). “The Revelation of Discovery”

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

  Benjamin Rush

  Wise, Patriotic, Perfect

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

  Richard Baxter

  Ignorant, Unnecessary, Superfluous

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.167

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• Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious, Relief, Peculiar

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Graves, Admiring, Agnosticism

  1935 Religion and Literature.

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• No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

  Marya Mannes

  Faith, Christian, Men

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• The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Art, Secret

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• We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Philosophy, Fire

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

  Thomas Betterton

  Real, Actors, Speak

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• Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Sweet, Heart

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Religious, Science

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• Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

  Vikram Seth

  Faith, Backbone, Wishbones

  Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.78, Penguin Books India

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• One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.

  Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

  Faith, Together, Ifs

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• God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Order, People

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.590, Ravenio Books

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• Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Becoming, Spirit

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• God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

  David Hume

  Faith, Wise, Spirit

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• Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

  Paul Tournier

  Faith, Adventure, Surrender

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• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Becoming

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• God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

  Henrietta Mears

  Faith, Grows

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• The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

  W. H. Auden

  Faith, Believe, Unique

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• Man is at his tallest when he bows.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Men, Bows

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