Quotes About Christian

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

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!

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

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

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.

Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants [of the global south] will not. Muslims, like Jews, increasingly probe into and publicize their holocaust. The "deep past" already plays a significant role in the growth of Muslim sentiment toward the Christian North. It will play an important role in international affairs far into the future

the Mongol rulers of what became Iran, a few Christian

In 531, Tribonian authored a regulation that required that before any trial or hearing could begin, everyone, including litigants and officials, was obliged to swear an oath of Christian faith while placing a hand on a copy of the Gospels…a requirement made easier by another regulation that ordered a copy of the Gospels placed in every courtroom.

O, I have pass'd a miserable night,So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,That, as I am a Christian faithful man,I would not spend another such a night,Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.

It follows, therefore, that the church's evangelism ought to be one in which all the counsel of God is made known to men. We need a recovery of belief in the converting and sanctifying power of the living Word of God in the teaching of the pulpit, and its ability to transform the lives of men and produce in them the lineaments and fruits of mature Christian character.

The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society - in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.

A good orator can whip a crowd, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. This is not the kind of emotion that God desires. When emotion is a response to truth or to a clear comprehension of the nature of God and His goodness to us, then emotion is valuable and appropriate.

What a difference there is between human virtues as the product of human effort and Christian virtues as the product of the divine life and nature within us!

This same standard could one day be applied to Christian colleges vis-à-vis sexual-orientation discrimination.

emphasize quite strongly the responsibility of all individual Christians to think carefully about issues of faith for ourselves,

Writing during the Nazi regime with growing knowledge of its atrocities, Bonhoeffer is probably the most important Christian theologian in my life.

Any committed Christian is capable of initiating a good conversation on a biblical text.

Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.