Quotes about chris
christmas wall hollies
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. Thomas Haynes Bayly
christian prayer fire
The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer. Thomas Guthrie
christian years despair
The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.
christian fiction example
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. Thomas B. Macaulay
christ mankind malice
The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.
christian kings judging
Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge? Thomas Hobbes
christian thinking asking
I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system. Tim Scott
christian perfect trying
I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. Tim Tebow
christian country cities
There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't know our country. Our country is wicked, and the Christians are few. Just like they're few in other countries, they're few here. There may be many churches and there may be church buildings on every street corner and every corner in our cities across this country, but the true Christians are few. Tim Conway
christian heart games
People who come along all the time and they ask, 'What's wrong with this?' In other words, they're always wondering how close to the edge they can getand still be a Christian. Listen, if any of you are like that, just go back to the world. Stop testing the edges. If it's the world you want, go back to it! And if you want to love Christ, then love Christ, and love Him with all your heart, and follow Him, and stop playing this idiotic game where you want to see how close to the edge you can live.
christmas blessing flow
The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else. Thomas Kinkade
christian religious father
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. Thomas Jefferson
christian simplicity mind
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.
christian thinking religion
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
christian kings war
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This practical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
christianity judas heard
Judas heard all Christ's sermons. Thomas Goodwin
christian fundamentals constitution
Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.
christian prayer blessed
Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.
christian character important
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage. Thomas John Barnardo
christian brother found
Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular. Thomas Keneally
christian perspective god-love
In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself. Thomas Keating
christian men divinity
If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things. Thomas Chalmers
christian education school
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.
christian prayer lying
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.
christian hands christian-inspirational
Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
christian self discipline
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ
christian blessing ends
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. Thomas Adams
christian art blessing
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.
christian horse tired
Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul.
christian pain blessing
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.
christian fall men
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
christian wise real
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians. Thomas Brooks
christian hope heart
A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.