Quotes about Christianity

North Americans think they know how to speak Christian, but what they say is actually a gross distortion. Either people do not know Christian words at all, or they have heard them but do not know what they mean, or they think they know what they mean when in fact they mean something completely different.

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The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.

We received it by asking. This means that even very gifted people are not necessarily mature Christians. They may not even have good character. Therefore, the gifts of the Spirit do not validate our walk with God.

Christians have authority over the power of the demonic world, and we have power that is greater than the power of the devil!

As Christians, we cannot be possessed in the sense that a demon would control our minds and actions, because when we receive Jesus, our bodies become the house of the Holy Spirit.

You cannot understand how intense depression and anxiety can be unless you have been there, and not every chemical imbalance signifies a demon. Sometimes we need to give people permission to take medication if they need it—which, by the way, is a huge no-no in many Christian circles.

Even if the main people who influenced us were negative role models, as Christians, we now follow Christ as our example and hear the Holy Spirit calling us into our true identities. When we begin to act like royalty, issues that felt like mountains in our lives will become mere stepping stones to demonstrate our character.

in what myth does a man live nowadays? In the Christian myth, the answer might be. "Do you live in it?" I asked myself. To be honest, the answer was no. For me it is not what I live by. "Then do we no longer have any myth?" "No, evidently we no longer have any myth." "But then what is your myth — the myth in which you do live?" At this point the dialogue with myself became uncomfortable, and I stopped thinking. I had reached a dead end.

There's a deep desire among Christian women to serve God, heart and soul, with their Christian brothers. Yet, in the church--even in some of the best situations--male/female realtionships are the source of some of our biggest hurts, conflicts, misunderstandings, and tensions on both sides.

What we discover is transforming grace (Romans 12:2) that leads Christians to "walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4) and to avoid a life of sin (verses 1—14).

Paul repeatedly promises Christians that nothing can separate them from the love of that God who is "for" them.