Quotes about Christian

The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.

Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway.

Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

From that moment on, no Christian can ever say one form of prayer is as good as another or one religion is as good as another.

The superiority of spiritual power over sensuous is the central point of Christian Science.

A Christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for him or her.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

I passionately believe, belong tightly together. First, what is the ultimate Christian hope? Second, what hope is there for change, rescue, transformation, new possibilities within the world in the present? And the main answer can be put like this. As long as we see Christian hope in terms of "going to heaven," of a salvation that is essentially away from this world, the two questions are bound to appear as unrelated.

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.