Religious Quotes - Page 5

• To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

  William Tyndale

  Trust, God, Faith

  William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317

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• Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

  Richard G. Scott

  Friendship, Change, Bible

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• God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Broken Heart, Crush, God

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• We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Islamic, Dhikr, People

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• When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Opportunity

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• The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Christian, Healing, Missionary

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!

  T. B. Joshua

  Not Good Enough, Best Is Yet To Come, Pastor

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• If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure one and regard it as a precious asset, and to make a greater effort to go to the House of the Lord and partake of the spirit and the blessings to be had therein.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  God, Christian, Blessing

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• Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

  Abu Dawood

  Wisdom, Peace, Prayer

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• What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Positive, Bible, Christian

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• We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.307, Discovery House

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• While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspirational, God, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

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• I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

  Billy Graham

  Trust, Jesus, Afterlife

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Forgiveness, Islamic, Passion

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• God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.102, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!

  Joel Osteen

  Life, God, Faith

  Twitter post from Apr 9, 2012

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• I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns.  Thorns are anything that distracts us from God.  When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil.  A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

  Francis Chan

  God, Sports, Money

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.45, David C Cook

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• God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

  R. C. Sproul

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Death, God

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin

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• Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Islamic, Taqwa, Considering

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• Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Islamic, Humble, Pride

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• Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Bible, Faith, God

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• The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Life, God, Christian

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