Quotes about Christian

Magdalene loved a very concrete Jesus who led her to a ubiquitous and Risen Christ. Paul started with a Universal Christ and grounded it all in a quite homely and lovable Jesus, who was rejected, crucified, and resurrected. Working together, Magdalene and Paul guide and direct the Christian experience in truly helpful ways toward both Jesus and Christ, but from opposite sides.

The incarnational worldview grounds Christian holiness in objective and ontological reality instead of just moral behavior.

The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice.

Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian.

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.