I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

God created the heavens and the earth to reveal His glory. Don't allow creation to eclipse and steal the worship God desires and deserves.

To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.

The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own image

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