Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Bernanos

[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.

George William Curtis

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

George Whitefield

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

George Whitefield

It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

George Whitefield

The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

George Whitefield

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

George Whitefield

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

George Whitefield

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

George Whitefield

No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

George Whitefield

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

George Whitefield

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

George Whitefield

Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.

George Whitefield

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

George Whitefield

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

George Whitefield

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

George Whitefield

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.

George Whitefield

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

George Whitefield

If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.

George Whitefield

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

George Whitefield

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

George Whitefield

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

George Whitefield

How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.

George Whitefield

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

George Whitefield

John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

George Will

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

George S. Kaufman

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

Jim Hamilton

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

Jensen Ackles

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Jeremiah Wright

A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice.

Jeffrey Eugenides

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

Jim Elliot

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

Jim Elliot

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.