Quotes about Christianity

If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.

So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

Love your enemies." That is the hardest saying of all. Please, Father in heaven who made me, take away my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh to love my enemy. It is a terrible thought — "we love God as much as the one we love the least.

Have we even begun to be Christians?

If you believe in the mission of Jesus Christ, then you're bound to try to let go of your past, in the sense that you are entitled to his forgiveness. To keep regretting what was is to deny God's grace.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

Christian joy is letting Christ live His life out through you so that what He is, you become.

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.