Quotes about chris
christmas sacrifice son
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice. Vance Havner
christian hatred god-love
Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
christian integrity character
To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
christian deceiving these-days
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
christian two church-today
One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
christian practice judging
God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
christian feet hands
Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
christian new-york mean
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.
christian mind doe
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
christian average devil
If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
christian scum-of-the-earth needs
We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
christian godly heaven
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
christian men lord
No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
christian hate followers
The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
christian encouragement inspiration
Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.
christian men differences
A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
christian party sunday
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
christian garden tree
Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
christian moving criticism
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
christian poor places-to-live
The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
christian dirty white
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
christian real singing
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
christian higher-ground grace
We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
christian together sticks
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
christian faces lord
What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
christian efficiency sufficiency
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
christian wise stress
Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.
christian fighting church
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
christian messages available
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
christian america eagles
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
christian real smart
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
christian country mosques
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. Umberto Eco
christian laughter believe
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .