Please share your favorite Christian quotes that have helped you....

[JimfromOhio]

I will start.

The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God’s power towards all and over all that is seen. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (In No Rusty Swords)

[Criada]

Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.
A. W. Tozer.

[MrJim]

"The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have 'beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war' (Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3). ... Our weapons are not weapons with which cities and countries may be destroyed, walls and gates broken down, and human blood shed in torrents like water. But they are weapons with which the spiritual kingdom of the devil is destroyed. ... Christ is our fortress; patience our weapon of defense; the Word of God our sword. ... Iron and metal spears and swords we leave to those who, alas, regard human blood and swine’s blood of well-nigh equal value."~~Menno Simons

[Joykins]

C.S. Lewis:

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

[MrJim]

"The idolatry of patriotism, believing that any one nation's or people's cause is so worthy that to it human lives-whether of 'friend' or 'foe'-should be sacrificed, must be unveiled not first when it has actually led to open warfare, but already when the possibility of such slaughter has been accepted into government plans. Not taking of life, but the idolizing of one's own interest which leads finally to killing, is the deepest sin of militarism. Whether the sixth commandment forbids all killing is still debated; in any case the first forbids nationalism" ~John Howard Yoder

This passage has been in the back of my bible for nearly as long as I've had it (20 years)~probably my top 2-3 quotes of all time.

[Lisa0315]

Stop worrying about Genesis and Revelations and concentrate on daily living. (My grandmother)

[MrJim]

Stop worrying about Genesis and Revelations and concentrate on daily living. (My grandmother)

...not enough wise old grannies around...but you'll one soon, won'tcha?:D

[Lisa0315]

...not enough wise old grannies around...but you'll one soon, won'tcha?:D

Later, rather than sooner. My oldest is just 20. She is "promised" at this point. Engagement supposed to be in 2008. Wedding in 2009. Babies? Who knows when? So, yeah, perhaps in the next five to ten years, I might be a granny. I am already trying out names.

Mamaw
Memaw
MiMi

[MrJim]

Later, rather than sooner. My oldest is just 20. She is "promised" at this point. Engagement supposed to be in 2008. Wedding in 2009. Babies? Who knows when? So, yeah, perhaps in the next five to ten years, I might be a granny. I am already trying out names.

Mamaw
Memaw
MiMi

Popular one in this area is grammy....

[Lisa0315]

Popular one in this area is grammy....

That Mamaw's and the derivitives are mostly a family thing. I don't know a whole lot of others who use those. A few, but, not so many that I would call it a local thing.

Lot of Nanas around here, though.

Lisa

[TealTuesday]

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. —Richard Sibbes :prayer: :prayer: :prayer:

[Spiritofprophecy]

Greetings in the name of Jesus;:hug:

"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrines? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts." Isaiah 28:9

:wave:

[TealTuesday]

hello spirit,ty for hugs

[plum]

"There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work ... (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
-Fred Buechner

"I ended my first book with the words no answer. I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before yoru face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words."
-Orual in "Til We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis

The turning point in our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.
- Patrick Morley

Laying down your life means making your own faith and doubt, hope and despair, joy and sadness, courage and fear available to others as ways of getting in touch with the Lord of life.
-Henri Nouwen

Every time we see a major crisis in the history of the Church, such as the Great Schism of the eleventh century, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, or the immense secularization of the twentieth century, we always see that a major cause of rupture in the power exercised by those who claim to be followers of the poor and powerless Jesus. What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.
-Henri Nouwen

"The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together


"The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart - it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice - it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask. I think that we were given the Scriptures, not so that we could prove that we were right about everything - it was to humble us into realizing that God is right and the rest of us are just guessing."
-Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, Page 43

[AngelusSax]

While these quotes aren't necessarily from a Christian work or theologian, I believe they apply to the Christian walk just as much, if not moreso, than many quotes that are:

If nothing we do matters, than the only thing that matters is what we do. If there's no greater meaning, than the smallest gesture can be the greatest thing in the world. (Angel, Ep. "Epiphany")

Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh and cruel. That's why there's us. Champions. It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be. (Angel, Ep. "Deep Down")

[Crujir]

Look at my signature...

[Crujir]

Look at my signature...
The first quote is very true; sometimes it takes absolute devastation or desperation before someone realizes that they need Jesus.

I believe I read both of the quotes on the t-shirts of passers-by.

[jive4005]

" You are what you eat!"

This saying, taken to it's spiritual side, moves mountains for me.
Whatever we put into our minds, hearts and bodies will surely transform us... for good or evil.

rev

ps: bet sum0 likes THIS saying!

pps: My FAV quote: There's good music and there's bad music - Duke Ellington

[Crujir]

" You are what you eat!"

This saying, taken to it's spiritual side, moves mountains for me.
Whatever we put into our minds, hearts and bodies will surely transform us... for good or evil.

rev

ps: bet sum0 likes THIS saying!

pps: My FAV quote: There's good music and there's bad music - Duke Ellington
Amen!

I like that!

[MrJim]

"God pounds His nails..."

S.King

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

" You are what you eat!"

This saying, taken to it's spiritual side, moves mountains for me.
Whatever we put into our minds, hearts and bodies will surely transform us... for good or evil.

Mark 7:14-16
Matthew 15:11-13

sorry, couldn't resist. carry on, then, as ye were ...........

[Spiritofprophecy]

Greetings in the name of Jesus::hug:

Man does not live by bread alone, But by every word which comes from God.:wave:

[edb19]

C. S. Lewis has some great ones:

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.


Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.


. . . . . that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.


There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."