Quotes about christian
christian jesus past
Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit. John Stott
christian holiness and-love
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
christian father worry
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
christian water baptism
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
christian jesus believe
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.
christian focus doe
No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.
christian jesus believe
The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
christian tears truth-is
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
christian responsibility impossible
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
christian jesus secret
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
christian jesus doe
Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
christian focus community
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.
christian sacrifice self
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
christian humility pride
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
christian clueless enlightenment
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
christian hazards discouragement
The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
christian jesus vision
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.
christian mature neglect
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
christian scripture impossible
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
christian conservative should
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
christian decision christ
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
christian humble hands
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
christian brother father
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.
christian counter-culture long
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .
christian jesus men
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
christian easter christ-on-the-cross
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
christian vision missionary
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
christian-inspirational our-love love-grows
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
christian character understanding
Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
christian lying community
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
christian real tree
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
christian real hands
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?
christian doctors long
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere. Sherwin B. Nuland