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More Christian Quotes

Dear Friends,

Everyone (I assume) has a “favorite” Christian quote. Over the years I have collected and memorized many! So, today, I simply typed in my search engine “Favorite Christian Quotes” to see which one’s other people liked best and share them with you – assuming, of course, that if they spoke to others they might also speak to you. If you have one that you found extremely helpful, and is not included here, I would like to know what it is, and ask that you might take a moment at the end to pass it along to me. Thanks! Enjoy.



“Please do not feel you have the right to judge me simply because I sin differently than you.” Anonymous

“The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you discover why.” Mark Twain

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“The proper understanding of everything in life begins with God.” John Piper



“My life is but a weaving, Between my God and me;
I cannot choose the colors, He weaves so steadily.
Oft’ times He weaves with sorrow; And I in foolish pride;
Forget He sees the upper, And I the underside.
Not ’til the loom is silent, And the shuttles cease to fly;
Will God unroll the canvas, And reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful, In the weaver’s skillful hand;
As the threads of gold and silver, In the pattern He has planned.
He knows, He loves, He careth; This truth nothing can dim;
He gives the very best to those, Who leave the choice to Him.”
Corrie ten Boom

"I do not have enough faith to be an atheist." Anonymous

“A saint is one who makes it easy to believe in Jesus.” Ruth Graham Bell

“If you are asking God to move mountains, don’t be surprised if he hands you a shovel.” Author Unknown

“The best repentance is to do so no more.” Martin Luther



“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about [Jesus]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” C. S. Lewis

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B Smedes

“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

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

“You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything else.” Charles Spurgeon

“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it’s not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.” St. Augustine of Hippo

“The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.” Thomas Carlyle



“Lord, send me where you will, only go with me; lay on me what you will, only sustain me. Cut any cord but the one that binds me to your cause.” Titus Coan

“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot

“It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ that we lose all affectionate touch with Him in our service for Him.” J.F.E.

“God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until He makes a man nothing, He can make nothing out of Him.” Martin Luther

“The object of love is to serve, not to win.” Woodrow Wilson

“If nothing seems to go my way today, this is my happiness – God is my Father and I am His child.” Basilea Schlink

“When God wants to do His great works, He trains somebody to be quiet enough and little enough, and then He uses that person.” Hudson Taylor


“What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; but what they think of Jesus because of me – this is critical.” Cliff Richard

Remember, if you have a quote you've found helpful, send it along.

Living in His All-sufficient Grace, Pastor Jeff

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