Quotes about Christian
The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.
- Herman Bavinck
Scientific information about the universe does not displace God. Some have said that they searched the heavens and did not see God. The universe with its measureless spaces remains a vast mystery to us, and those who do not find God in their immediate presence, in their heart and conscience, in the Word and the Christian community, will not find him in the universe either, even though they are equipped with the best telescopes that money can buy.
- Herman Bavinck
Christian ethics maintains that the whole man must be good in intellect and will, heart and conscience. To do good is a duty and a desire, a task and a privilege, and thus the work of love. Love is therefore the fulfilling of the law.
- Herman Bavinck
If there is no infallible Scripture "there can exist only a subjective and purely individual notion of what belongs to Christian faith." All ways are good, if they but lead to faith — not to what is contained in faith, for this differs endlessly.
- Herman Bavinck
The church's holiness must not be sacrificed for its catholicity, and the church's catholicity may not be surrendered in favor of its holiness. For in denying either, we lose both. Both attributes by nature characterize the one Christian church.
- Herman Bavinck
Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,' says God, 'come to me, the fountain, and drink immediately.' Though the beams are taken away, yet the sun remains the same in the firmament as ever it was.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
- Timothy Keller
Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.
- Dinesh D'Souza
A Christian is not a depository of the truth; he's a dispenser of the truth.
- Vance Havner
The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.
- AW Tozer
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
- Charles Spurgeon
If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones