quotes about Christian Inspirational
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Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
-- Adam ClarkeSource : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252
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You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.
-- Adrian Rogers -
In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.
-- Alan Redpath -
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Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"
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To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.
-- Amanda SmithSource : Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.270, Jazzybee Verlag
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If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.
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He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria -
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Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
-- Benjamin CarsonSource : Ben & Candy Carson @RealBenCarson, twitter.com. October 29, 2013.
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True intimacy with God always brings humility.
-- Beth Moore -
Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
-- Beth Moore -
Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.
-- Beth Moore -
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The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
-- Billy Graham -
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
-- Billy Graham -
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
-- Billy Graham -
Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith
-- Billy Graham -
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The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
-- Billy Sunday -
The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.
-- Billy SundaySource : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
-- C. S. LewisSource : C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
-- Charles KingsleySource : Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.4065, Delphi Classics
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Anything under God's control is never out of control.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.
-- Charles Stanley -
Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.
-- Charles StanleySource : Charles Stanley (2006). “Walking Wisely: Real Life Solutions for Life's Journey”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc
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If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
-- Charles Stanley -
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We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
-- Charles Stanley -
Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water.
-- Chip Ingram -
Light works most effectively in darkness.
-- Christine Caine -
Greater is He that is in you than anything that surrounds you.
-- Christine Caine -
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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
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We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.
-- David Lloyd-Jones -
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
-- David Lloyd-Jones -
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
-- David WilkersonSource : David Wilkerson (2012). “God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation into the Father Heart of God”, p.247, Baker Books
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The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.
-- David Wilkerson -
You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.
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Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
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The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong
-- Donald Barnhouse -
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
-- E. Stanley Jones -
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
-- Edith Stein -
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
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There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
-- Erwin W. LutzerSource : Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.45, Moody Publishers
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If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.
-- F.B. Meyer -
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
-- Francis Chan -
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
-- Francis Chan -
We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
-- Francis Chan -
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
-- Frank A. Clark -
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It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver.
-- Frank W. Boreham -
God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.
-- George Muller -
Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
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The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
-- Hudson Taylor -
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
-- J. C. Ryle -
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
-- J. I. Packer -
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Any place you can take Jesus Christ with you is ok to go.
-- J. Vernon McGee -
Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.
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Your words can permanently influence a life.
-- Jerry Falwell -
It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.
-- Jim Cymbala -
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
-- John Calvin -
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
-- John Calvin -
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
-- John Calvin -
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
-- John OrtbergSource : John Ortberg (2001). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”, p.162, Harper Collins
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
-- John Ortberg -
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
-- John Piper -
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
-- John Piper -
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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.
-- John Piper -
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
-- John Piper -
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
-- John Piper -
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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
-- John StottSource : John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.160, SPCK
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Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.
-- Joyce Meyer -
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Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle- you.
-- Kay ArthurSource : Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.46, WaterBrook
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If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?
-- Louie Giglio -
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Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough.
-- Louie Giglio -
Live simply so that others may simply live.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
-- Martin Luther -
We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.
-- Matthew Henry -