Christianity Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

  John Flavel

  Hate, Heart, Long

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• Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

  George Whitefield

  Heart, Christ

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.269

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Perseverance, Jesus, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.41, CCEL

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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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• Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim.

  Reza Aslan

  Biblical, Two, Greek

  "Fox News must apologize to Reza Aslan". www.washingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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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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• I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Ends, Made

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• Very few things in life matter.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Things In Life, Matter

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• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Order, Doe

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold - let us call on the Lord. He will come to warm our hearts with perfect love, not only for Him but also for our neighbor, and the cold of him who hates the good will flee before the heat of His countenance.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Hate, Heart

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• As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Fire, Snow

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• We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.

  John Owen

  Hands, Giving, May

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.84

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