Quotes about Christianity
Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.
- Billy Sunday
Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
- Timothy Keller
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.
- Timothy Keller
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
- Timothy Keller
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
- GK Chesterton
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
- Gregory of Nazianzus
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
- JC Ryle
The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
- Jerry Bridges
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
- Jerry Bridges
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
- Johannes Tauler
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
- John Owen