Quotes About Christian

How shall we ever help a Christian brother and set him straight in his difficulty and doubt, if not with God's own Word? All our own words quickly fail.

God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time.

capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

After that I went home and Sally put what was left of me to bed; next day, being a Christian family, we saluted the happy morn with the Hell and Hades of a row because I wouldn't get up and go to early service, my sister being quite determined that even if I didn't get up. I shouldn't sleep.

Thomas Paine remains just one of innumerable Christian missionaries whose contributions to science have been denied recognition by men of science.

As he settled in, he assessed the way he felt with one of his favorite phrases from Mark Twain—the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces. He slept well.

Everyone can understand how salutary it [the rosary] is, especially in our times wherein sometimes a certain annoyance of the things of the spirit is felt even among the Faithful, and a dislike, as it were, for the Christian doctrine. ~ Pope Pius XI

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

Christian life consists of faith and charity

The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.

Communion is as necessary for us to sustain our Christian vitality, as the vision of God is necessary to the angels, to maintain their life of glory.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

Know that this is the excellence of grace in a Christian, to be fitted for any condition; not only to say, if it were this or that, but if it were any.