Christian Living Quotes

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”

“Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He’s doing.”

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

“If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.”

“And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.”

“Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage.”

“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.”

“He said “Love...as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much.”

“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It’s not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world.”

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”

“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.”

“The Christian says, ‘Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex.”

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud.

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”

“Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus’ touch. We experience his care.”

“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”

“Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.”

“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”