Quotes about Christianity
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.
- NT Wright
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
- Jonathan Edwards
The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
- Bill Hybels
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We think of the Christian life as a 'changed life' but it is not that. What God offers us is an 'exchanged life,' a 'substituted life,' and Christ is our Substitute within.
- Watchman Nee
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
- Martin Luther
If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
- Ellen White
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
- John Calvin
Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something of their load and it's weighing you down a little bit.
- Kevin DeYoung
We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.
- Hudson Taylor
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
- William Wilberforce