If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
– Billy Sunday
Joy | Christianity
Christianity certainly involves hardship and discipline. But it is founded on the solid rock of old fashioned happiness. Jesus is in the happiness business.
– John Hagee
Happiness | Christianity | Discipline
Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism | Christianity
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
– G.K. Chesterton
Christianity
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity | Eternity
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost; Christianity without Christ; forgiveness without repentance; salvation without regeneration; politics without God; and Heaven without Hell.
– William Booth
Religion | Christianity | Apathy
Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy–you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism. As St. Paul said, if Christ is not risen from the dead, then eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
– Ann Coulter
Christianity | Responsibility
The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God–it’s about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.
– Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Christianity
The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
– Watchman Nee
Christianity | Faith
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
– Billy Graham
Christianity | Discouragement | Prayer
That world outside there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Christianity | Waiting
Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.
– Rick Warren
Christianity | Relationships
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
– Isaac Newton
Christianity | The Bible
We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.
– Chuck Colson
Christianity | Integrity
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.
– Ravi Zacharias
Christianity | Atheism | The Gospel
Christianity is not just repeating John 3:16 or Acts 16:31; it is yielding the heart and the life to Christ.
– Harry Ironside
Christianity | The Heart
The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God… Our religion is weak because our God is weak… Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.
– A. W. Tozer
Christianity
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
– G.K. Chesterton
Christianity | Religion | Hatred
The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.
– Alexander MacLaren
Christianity
If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position
– Tim Keller
Faith | Christianity | Politics
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
– Billy Sunday
Christianity | Church
There is something, which makes Christianity more than a religion, more than an ethic, and more than the idle dream of the sentimental idealist. It is this something, which makes it relevant to each one of us right now as a contemporary experience.
– Major Ian Thomas
Christianity
Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance–he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.
– Tim Keller
Christianity | Faith | Grace | Religion | Repentance
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christianity | Discipleship
The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.
– John Hagee
Christianity | Light
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.
– Isaac Newton
Scripture | Philosophy | Christianity
Christian living is not a method or technique; it is an entirely different, revolutionary principle of life.
– Major Ian Thomas
Christianity
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
– John Wesley
Christianity | Theology
To dwell on the past simply causes failure in the present. While you are sitting down and bemoaning the past and regretting all the things you have not done, you are crippling yourself and preventing yourself from working in the present. Is that Christianity? Of course it is not.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christianity | Failure
If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.
– J. Vernon McGee
Christianity | Legalism
The secret of the Christian’s passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
– David Jeremiah
Christianity | Passion
The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.
– Alexander MacLaren
Christianity
If you do not plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don’t begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you.
– Kay Arthur
Obedience | Christianity | Commitment
Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in the full conviction, that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity.
– Daniel Webster
Christianity
Christianity, as Christ taught, is the truest philosophy of life ever spoken. But let us be quite sure when we speak of Christianity, that we mean Christ’s Christianity.
– Henry Drummond
Christianity
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere “opiate of the people” have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity | Atheism
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress. If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christianity | Backsliding
Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.
– Frederick W. Faber
Christianity
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity | Honesty
Aggressive Christianity is the world’s greatest need.
– A. B. Simpson
Christianity
Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
– Adrian Rogers
Christianity
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
– George Whitefield
Christianity | Apathy
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
– Francis Bacon
Christianity
If I get well and write a book on Christianity, about which we have talked, we can attend more fully to this matter; but if I should be taken away suddenly, I do not wish to leave any duty of this kind unperformed. I want to leave somewhere a declaration of my belief in Christianity.
– Daniel Webster
Christianity | Believing
Secularism, with its moral relativism, is in direct opposition to Christianity and its absolute morality. The battle is between these two worldviews–one that stands on God’s Word and one that accepts man’s opinions.
– Ken Ham
Christianity | Theology
There’s not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants and neighbors.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Christianity
A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
– Watchman Nee
Christianity
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Faith | Christianity
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
– Austin Phelps
Christianity | Morality
Christianity removes the attraction of the earth; and this is one way in which it diminishes men’s burden. It makes them citizens of another world.
– Henry Drummond
Christianity | Worldliness
May the Christian church never be regarded as a special interest group. We’re here because we love our neighbor.
– Chuck Colson
Christianity
As we live a life that is about as unlike Jesus as you can get, a life of comfort and coddling undreamt of by billions around the world; a lifestyle in the top 10% of the earth today (-in debt up to our eyeballs all the while) – the fact is that we don’t really CARE that we have lost original Christianity, do we? We are too busy, man. Don’t bother us with that kind of talk.
– Andrew Strom
Christianity | Apathy
oday, we have a Christianity made easy as an accommodation to an age that is unwilling to face the implication of Calvary, and the gospel of ‘simply believism’ has produced a harvest of professions which have done untold harm to the cause of Christ.
– Duncan Campbell
Apathy | Christianity
Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn’t have guessed. That’s one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It’s a religion you couldn’t have guessed.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christianity | Prayer
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
– G.K. Chesterton
Christianity
True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within, motivated by a love for the glory and honor of God.
– Ray C. Stedman
Christianity | The Holy Spirit
Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.
– Erwin Lutzer
Christianity
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
– Abraham Kuyper
Christianity
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
– Assorted Authors
Christianity | Freedom | The Gospel
A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life’s problems, and it works.
– A.J. Gossip
Christianity
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
– John Newton
Christianity
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
– George Whitefield
Christianity
We must never forget that true Christianity is more than teaching – it is a way of life. In fact, it is life itself. “He who has the Son has life,” remember? When we talk about life, we are talking about something that is far more than mere morality, far more than doctrinal accuracy.
– Ray C. Stedman
Christianity
A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life’s problems, and it works.
– A. J. Gossip
Christianity
The Christian life is the only life that will ever be completed. Apart from Christ the life of man is a broken pillar, the race of men an unfinished pyramid. One by one in sight of Eternity all human Ideals fall short, one by one before the open grave all human hopes dissolve.
– Henry Drummond
Christianity
There is no surer proof of Christ’s divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.
– Ann Coulter
Christianity
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
– Assorted Authors
Christianity | Criticism
Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to ‘ask, seek, knock’ in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God’s grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.
– Tim Keller
Christianity | Faith | God | Grace | Repentance
Christianity offers a worldview that leads to the generation of moral values and ideals that are able to give moral meaning and dignity to our existence.
– Alister McGrath
Christianity
Our Christianity is a name, a shadow, unless, we resemble Him who, being the incarnate God, was incarnate goodness.
– James H. Aughey
Christianity
The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity.
– Henry Drummond
Family | Christianity
The fear of the Lord is the ABC of the Christian life.
– Zac Poonen
Christianity
It’s not what you know but who you know that counts.
– Woodrow Kroll
Christianity
The great comprehensive truths written in letters of living light on every page of our history are these: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor of immortal hope, except in the principles of Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
– James H. Aughey
History | Christianity | Freedom
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn’t, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God’s Son.
– Josh McDowell
Christianity | The Bible
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
– Abraham Kuyper
Christianity
It’s essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children’s. If we don’t, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.
– Ken Ham
The Bible | Christianity | America
How you view God determines the quality and style of your Christian experience. Many Christians spend much of their lives paralyzed because, although they have trusted Christ as Savior, they have never really seen what His sacrifice teaches us about the character of God. He gave His Son; He sent His Son; He “handed over” His Son because He loves us.
– Sinclair B. Ferguson
Christianity
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
– Tim Keller
Christianity | Faith | The Heart
I question whether the defenses of the gospel are not sheer impertinences. The gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity is in a bad state. But He is alive, and we have only to preach His gospel in all its naked simplicity, and the power that goes with it will be the evidence of its divinity.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christianity
The alternatives of the intellectual life are Christianity or Agnosticism. The Agnostic is right when he trumpets his incompleteness. He who is not complete in Him must be forever incomplete.
– Henry Drummond
Christianity
Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity
Enemy-occupied territory-that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign in sabotage.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity
Postmodern people have been rejecting Christianity for years, thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism.
– Tim Keller
Christianity
If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them – if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it’s going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim – and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.
– Tim Keller
Christianity | God | Jesus | The cross
Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity
Through its whole history the Christian religion has developed supreme affinities for best things.
– Austin Phelps
Christianity
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity | Conscience
Many people think that the mark of an authentic Christian is doctrinal purity; if a person’s beliefs are biblical and doctrinally orthodox, then he is a Christian. People who equate orthodoxy with authenticity find it hard to even consider the possibility that, despite the correctness of all their doctrinal positions, they may have missed the deepest reality of the authentic Christian life.
– Ray C. Stedman
Christianity | Doctrine
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
– William Law
Christianity | Piety
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn’t some broad, general outline–it’s a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Christianity | Sacrifice
The Gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity is in a bad state. But He is alive and we have only to preach His gospel in all its simplicity, and the power that goes with it will be evidence of its divinity.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christianity | The Gospel
Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world–and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.
– Ken Ham
Christianity | Good and Evil
Many Christians have been duped into accepting a false idea: that there is a “neutral” position they can take in regard to social issues. Some Christians even accept the myth that the U.S. Constitution declares that there should be a separation of church and state, and, thus, they don’t want their Christian beliefs to influence politics.
– Ken Ham
Christianity | Politics
Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
– Watchman Nee
Christianity
The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of happiness – in God. The reason for this is that there is no greater way to glorify God than to find in Him the happiness that my soul so desperately craves.
– Sam Storms
Happiness | Christianity
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
– Vance Havner
Christianity
The successful Christian life is a sweaty affair!
– R. Kent Hughes
Christianity