To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
– C.S. Lewis
Christians | Forgiveness
Christians never say “good-bye”; just “until we meet again.”
– Woodrow Kroll
Christians
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
– Billy Graham
Christians | The Bible | Examples
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
– Billy Graham
Christians
We are indeed the light of the world–but only if our switch is turned on.
– John Hagee
Christians | Light
The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Christians
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
– John Wesley
Christians | Giving | Prosperity
A Methodist (Christian) is one who loves the Lord his God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength. God is the joy of his heart, and the desire of his soul, which is continually crying, ‘Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth whom I desire besides thee.’ My God and my all! ‘Thou art the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.’ He is therefore happy in God; yea, always happy, as having in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life, and over-flowing his soul with peace and joy. Perfect love living now cast out fear, he rejoices evermore. Yea, his joy is full, and all his bones cry out, ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten me again unto a living hope of an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, reserved in heaven for me.
– John Wesley
Christians | Faithful
I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christians | Happiness
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.
– Dwight L. Moody
Christians | Family
There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
– Hannah More
Christians | Death
There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!
– Major Ian Thomas
Christians
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.
– John Stott
Christians | Community | The Cross
The church of Christ is the multitude of all those who believe in Christ for the remission of sins, and who are thankful for that mercy and who love the law of God purely, and who hate the sin in this world an long for the life to come.
– William Tyndale
Christians
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
– C.S. Lewis
Christians | Eternity | History
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone. How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?
– Martin Luther
Christians
The Christian is called out from the world. His life is not to be as the lives of those about him.
– Harry Ironside
Christians | Holiness
There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can’t bring sinners in.
– Mordecai Ham
Christians | Apathy
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
– Billy Graham
Christians
Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
– Karl Barth
Christians
To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be “in Christ,” it is for Christ to be in us
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christians
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
– William Law
Christians | Humility | Self-denial
The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
– Sadhu Sundar Singh
Christians
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.
– Blaise Pascal
Christians
Christians are not left in the world by accident but are placed there on divine assignment from their Lord.
– John MacArthur
Christians
There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.
– J. Vernon McGee
Christians | Friendship | Fellowship
Saints are planted in the house of God; they have a kind of rooting there: but though the tabernacle be a good rooting place, yet we cannot root firmly there, unless we are rooted in Jesus Christ.
– Abraham Wright
Christians | Jesus
Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
– A. W. Tozer
Christians | Church
God has some really weird kids.
– Bono
Christians
A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.
– Neil T. Anderson
Christians
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
– Vance Havner
Christians
I do not want the walls of separation between different orders of Christians to be destroyed, but only lowered, that we may shake hands a little easier over them.
– Assorted Authors
Christians
A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.
– Rick Warren
Christians | Service
When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?
– Alan Keyes
Christians | Hypocrisy
Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
– Watchman Nee
Christians
The note of hallelujah must never be in short supply in the spirit of the believer.
– Watchman Nee
Christians
Christians should be grave and serious, though cheerful and pleasant. They should feel that they have great interests at stake, and that the world has too. They are redeemed–not to make sport; purchased with precious blood–for other purposes than to make men laugh. They are soon to be in heaven–and a man who has any impressive sense of that will habitually feel he has much else to do than to make men laugh. The true course of life is midway between moroseness and levity; sourness and lightness; harshness and jesting. Be benevolent, kind, cheerful, bland, courteous–but serious. Be solemn, thoughtful, deeply impressed with the presence of God and with eternal things–but pleasant affable and benignant. Think not a smile sinful; but think not levity and jesting harmless.
– Albert Barnes
Christians
What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him.
– A. W. Tozer
Christians
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians | Change | Endurance
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
– Daniel Webster
Christians | Men
God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
– A. B. Simpson
Christians | Power
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
– A. B. Simpson
Christians | Sanctification
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christians
The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.
– Henry Blackaby
Christians | Peace | Witnessing
Christians nowadays generally are lacking in two kinds of knowledge: (I) a knowledge of the conditions by which evil spirits work; and (2) a knowledge of the principle of spiritual life.
– Watchman Nee
Christians | Knowledge
If a Christian remains in a carnal condition long after experiencing new birth, he hinders God’s salvation from realizing its full potential and manifestation. Only when he is growing in grace, constantly governed by the spirit, can salvation be wrought in him.
– Watchman Nee
Christians | Grace | Carnality
We may not say that we have the answers. Questions of how to conduct oneself as a Christian, or how to serve as a Christian, must be answered by life itself- the life of the individual in his direct responsible relationship to God.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Christians | Relationships
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
– Philip Yancey
Christians
Soulish Christians generally bend to certain directions. Most of them lean either towards emotion or towards reason.
– Watchman Nee
Reasoning | Christians
It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.
– Theodore Epp
Christians | Apathy
The only difference in death between a Christian and one who is not is that the Christian is ready to meet Jesus. A Christian is dead already – dead to the world, but alive to Christ. Death for you as a child of God is to fall asleep in His arms and awake in the other world, alive forever beyond the power of pain, safe forever from all sickness and suffering.
– Winkie Pratney
Christians | Death
The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christians
The union of Christians to Christ, their common head, and by means of the influence they derive from him, one to another, may be illustrated by the loadstone. It not only attracts the particles of iron to itself by the magnetic virtue, but by this virtue it unites them one to another.
– Richard Cecil
Christians | Christ | Unity
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
– Martin Luther
Christians
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian. But the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Christians
There are those who can venture far into the world and yet everywhere be true to their Savior; they are known as Christians wherever they appear, and people respect their position; they would not go anywhere if they knew that their mouths were to be stopped on the subjects lying nearest their hearts; the energy of Christ in them is so glowing and victorious a force that they mould the society in which they are, instead of being molded by it.
– James Stalker
Christians
How many denominate themselves Christians, though the Christianity they embrace is simply a kind of philosophy of life or of ethics, a few articles of truth, or some supernatural manifestations.
– Watchman Nee
Christians | Philosophy
God created us as social creatures with a need to belong. He never intended that any Christian should live in isolation.
– David Jeremiah
Christians
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
– William Gurnall
Faith | Trust | Christians
Every saint is God’s temple, and he who carries His temple about him, may go to prayer when he pleaseth.
– Augustine
Christians
The people of God may have to taste a little of the waters of death’s dark river, but Christ went to the very bottom of it, and rose again, and is alive for evermore.
– G.V. Wigram
Christians | Death
A forgiven sinner is quite different from an ordinary sinner, and a consecrated Christian is quite different from an ordinary Christian.
– Watchman Nee
Christians | Consecration
The Christian’s life should put his minister’s sermon in print.
– William Gurnall
Christians
The saints are God’s jewels, highly esteemed by and dear to him; they are a royal diadem in his hand.
– Matthew Henry
Christians
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which He lives.
– Charles Hodge
Christians | Redemption
Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.
– Hannah Whitall Smith
Christians | Worry
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
– Jerry Falwell
Christians
Christians should be grave and serious, though cheerful and pleasant. They should feel that they have great interests at stake, and that the world has too. They are redeemed–not to make sport; purchased with precious blood–for other purposes than to make men laugh. They are soon to be in heaven–and a man who has any impressive sense of that will habitually feel he has much else to do than to make men laugh. The true course of life is midway between moroseness and levity; sourness and lightness; harshness and jesting. Be benevolent, kind, cheerful, bland, courteous–but serious. Be solemn, thoughtful, deeply impressed with the presence of God and with eternal things–but pleasant affable and benignant. Think not a smile sinful; but think not levity and jesting harmless.
– Albert Barnes
Christians
Much confusion in the Christian life comes from ignoring the simple truth that God is far more interested in building your character than he is anything else.
– Rick Warren
Christians
The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere – any additional rules made to govern men’s conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
– Assorted Authors
Christians | The Gospel
Though all Christians possess a regenerated spirit, not all Christians are spiritual. Many are still fleshly. Their carnal mind is still full of wandering thoughts, reasons and plans; their emotion runs wild with many carnal interests, desires and tendencies; and their will formulates many worldly judgments, arguments and opinions. They are so occupied in following the flesh that they have neither time nor inclination to listen to the voice of intuition. Since the voice of the spirit is usually very soft, it cannot be heard unless it is listened to attentively with everything else quieted.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Christians | Carnality
We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
– Vance Havner
Christians
The Bible compares a newly regenerated believer to a baby. The life in his spirit which he newly possesses is as tiny and weak as a baby naturally born. There is nothing wrong with his being a baby as long as he does not remain too great a time in that stage. Every adult must being as a child. But should he persist as such very long, his spirit never progressing beyond what it was when he was first regenerated some years before, then something is drastically wrong.
– Watchman Nee
Christians | The Bible
Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
– Thomas Carlyle
Christians
I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! What a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!
– John Flavel
Christians
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
– John Bunyan
Christians | Encouragement
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
– Hannah Whitall Smith
Christians | Worry
Truth-oriented Christians love studying Scripture and theology. But sometimes they’re quick to judge and slow to forgive. They’re strong on truth, weak on grace.
– Randy Alcorn
Christians | Theology
When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?
– Alan Keyes
Christians | Hypocrisy
A Christian ought to feel that when a need arises, it is his duty to fill that need.
– Jack Hyles
Christians
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
– Oswald Chambers
Christians
It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
– C.S. Lewis
Christians | Apathy
Trees have their seasons at certain times of the year when they bring forth fruit; but a Christian is for all seasons.
– Assorted Authors
Christians
Christians are like teabags, you don’t know what they’re really like until you put them in hot water.
– Chip Ingram
Christians
Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christians | Grace
A Christian is a perpetual miracle.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christians
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Christians
A Christian should know more about the operation of his spirit than about the activity of his mind.
– Watchman Nee
Christians
A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christians | Suffering
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Christians
A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.
– John of Kronstadt
Christians | Good and Evil
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
– Assorted Authors
Christians | Service
The Christian is a [person] of joy… A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.
– William Barclay
Christians
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
– Phillips Brooks
Christians
No believer lives a spiritually isolated life.
– Theodore Epp
Christians
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
– Assorted Authors
Christians | Men
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is the sum of a Christian man.
– John Wesley
Suffering | Christians | Meekness
Today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don’t want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they’re living just to die.
– David Wilkerson
Christians | Unbelief
Remember you are God’s sword — His instrument — I trust a chosen vessel unto Him to bear His name. In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument will be the success.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Christians
Saints are planted in the house of God; they have a kind of rooting there: but though the tabernacle be a good rooting place, yet we cannot root firmly there, unless we are rooted in Jesus Christ.
– Abraham Wright
Christians | Jesus