Best Christian Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.”

“There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.”

“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned done it. Gotten that war against reason and uppity secularists you always wanted. Gotten even for the Scopes trial, which they say was one of many burrs under your saddle until your last breath. Well, rejoice, old man, because your tribes have gathered around America's oldest magical hairball of ignorance and superstition, Christian fundamentalism, and their numbers have enabled them to suck so much oxygen out of the political atmosphere that they are now acknowledged as a mainstream force in politics. Episcopalians, Jews, and affluent suburban Methodists and Catholics, they are all now scratching their heads, sweating, and swearing loudly that this pack of lower-class zealots cannot possibly represent the mainstream--not the mainstream they learned about in their fancy sociology classes or were so comfortably reassured about by media commentators who were people like themselves. Goodnight, Grandpa Baldwin. I'll toast you from hell.”

“Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.”

“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”

“If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”

“Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him. The driver kindly offered to help him on his journey. He joyfully accepted the offer but, when he was seated, continued to bend beneath his burden, which he still kept on his shoulders. "Why do you not lay down your burden?" asked the kind-hearted driver. "Oh!" replied the man, "I feel that it is almost too much to ask you to carry me, and I could not think of letting you carry my burden too." And so Christian who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burdens and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.”

“Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.”

“There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life”

“Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness”

“We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.”

“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

“Not a believer in the mosque am I,”

“You see, women have been essential to every great move of God. Yes, Moses led the Isaelites out of Egypt, but only after his mother risked her life to save him! Closer to our time, Clara Barton was instrumental in starting the Red Cross. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin put fire into people's heart to end slavery in the United States. Rosa Parks kicked the Civil Rights movement into gear with her quiet act of courage. Eunice Kennedy Shriver created the Special Olympics. Mother Teresa inspired the world by bringing love to countless thought unlovable. And millions of other women quietly change the world every day by bringing the love of God to those around them.”

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”

“Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.”

“Language is the key to the heart of people.”

“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”

“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”

“Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!”

“This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.”

“If you quiet the loud cries of culture, you might just hear the Holy Spirit start whispering to you.”

“The way our world turns out for good or evil has its roots in our children. Our future society, its people, its spirituality, and peace will depend on the outcome of the future leaders we are currently raising.”

“Sitting on top of a burning cottage was a huge gold and green scaled dragon. Its massive wings closed around its body. Its spiked tail flicked, sending large parts of the roof crashing to the square below. In its right claw, it held Andorria. It rotated its head from right to left, spewing out large streams of flames.”

“The God-shaped void set in every heart rests in a perfectly preserved state in a place called the atheist.”

“Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief.”

“Advance’ is the Christian’s motto. Onward to certain victory over sin, the world, and hell.”

“Who: God”

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”

“You're responsibility as a Christian is not to test GOD but to trust GOD. Don't dare him to bring you through a situation that you are walking into without his guidance and confirmation based off knowing he loves you, but rather tap into your gift of discernment that he as bestowed upon you to make the right decisions.”

“Please hear me: your mental health struggle is in no way, shape, or form an indication of a shallow faith in God.”

“Following the call of Christ can be tricky. But if you know it's GOD, why are you afraid?”

“We may with confidence approach the throne. We may walk in the garden with Him once again.”

“It was for the purpose of restoring intimate fellowship with mankind that Jesus came.”

“Jesus is telling us that redemption is more than having our sins forgiven; it is an intimate relationship He came to restore between us and God. If we are going to live out the first and greatest commandment of loving God completely (Matt. 22:36-37), this is the type of experiential intimacy which ought to be the objective of our lives.”

“I feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love.”

“We all want reassurance that the love we crave is a love we can find, or that will find us.”

“When I hear that still, small Voice wooing me and asking me to drop everything and spend time with Him, I need to be willing to yield.”

“Infuriating people? Canon could do that. Fashioning—and breaking into—locks? He excelled at that too. He could even put Breac to shame with how much he ate.”

“God is confident enough in me to be all things confident for me.”

“The existence of God is evidenced by our need of a God, but our inability to be one.”

“The worship of our disbelief is faith in inaction.”

“The reality of faith is far better than the fantasy of religious rituals.”

“I can honestly testify to the truth that He can take the ashes of any life and make something beautiful. The redemptive power of His blood is absolute and it transforms any and every situation as we give it to Him and choose His presence over everything else.”

“Oh, Wonder of Wonders”

“I'm Resting in the Lord”

“Time was when people went to church to meet God. Now they go to hear a sermon about Him.”

“God's problem in the United States and England is not humanism or communism or spiritualism. God's problem in America and England is dead fundamentalism.”

“The Revival Song”

“When you shut the mouths of women and tell them they can’t preach or teach you are”

“Prayer is where I acknowledge a battle that I can’t win by embracing a God Who can’t lose.”

“The ferocity of the storm is always measured by the compass that we’ve taken into it.”

“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”

“The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.”

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .”

“Lazarus Saturday: The Longest Way by Stewart Stafford”

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.”

“There may be times when we must make a courageous decision to hope even when everything around us contradicts this hope. Like Father Abraham, we will 'against hope believe in hope' (Romans 4:18). Or, as one writer expressed, 'in the depth of winter, we find within us an invincible summer.”

“Patient endurance and self-discipline mean we submit to the present moment as it is, not as we would like it to be.”

“One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our personalities, into the depths of our unconscious; it plagues us to the very moment of our death. The critical question is whether hope is self-deception, the ultimate cruelty of a cruel and tricky universe, or whether it is just possibly the imprint of reality.”

“Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way”

“God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.”

“When in darkness....strike a match”

“He didn't save them from the fire. He joined them in it.”

“Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth.”

“IN CHRIST”

“We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.”

“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.”

“No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don't ever, ever, ever lose hope!”

“A few feeble words can ignite a miracle.”

“I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the Eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.”

“We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.”

“Caine was a murderer. A liar. A cad. A skulker in shadows and a heartless wretch. What sort of woman or God would love someone like him?”

“Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.”

“He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into the river.”

“She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him as a man to protect her in so hectic a place as post-war Israel. Even so, his actions were borne out of an entirely different instinct, altogether: to fool her and anyone within a dart's range... to protect himself.”

“Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.”

“Sneezeweed, Drew?”

“Bitter disappointment pushed tears from her eyes.”

“You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.”

“Look. Isn't he beautiful?”

“Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to kick his hand.”

“Thought you didn't like red hair.”

“She wondered how a man could look into a woman’s eyes and lie so completely, so convincingly. She wondered how he could have looked and not seen the love that had glowed there, the blind faith, the unconditional devotion. She wondered how he would sleep at night, knowing he had betrayed her so effortlessly.”

“He watched her for her reaction, or possibly watched her just to watch, his eyes hooded by his lashes and his mouth impassive. A faceless man—such as the one she had dreamed of since she was a child—his identity not obscured by mist or flying sand or swirling dust, but by a mask he readily employed whenever he wished. As a shutter closed against a gale. Closed against her, no matter the impact of his words. He seemed to speak them against his will, just as he seemed to care for her against his will.”

“He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the curls with cheap, native combs. The sight of them gave him hope.”

“You were kidnapped not?”

“Lord Randall barreled inside, brandishing his cane in Drew's face.”

“It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he had ever made on those cursed stars. She needn't say more. In a single syllable, she had said more than he wanted to hear in an entire lifetime.”

“You next," he said. "Out of those clothes and into bed.”

“That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won't you come in?”

“. . . if you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.”

“I know that the fact that I am always searching for God, always struggling to discover the fullness of Love, always yearning for the complete truth, tells me that I have already been given a taste of God, of Love and of Truth. I can only look for something that I have, to some degree, already found. How can I search for beauty and truth unless that beauty and truth are already known to me in the depth of my heart? It seems that all of us human beings have deep inner memories of the paradise that we have lost.”

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.”

“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.”

“Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.”

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”

“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.”

“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.”

“Happiness is heaven in human heart.”