Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

Charles Spurgeon

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Charles Spurgeon

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

Charles Spurgeon

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

Charles Spurgeon

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

Alan Watts

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan Paton

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

Alan Paton

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

Alan Moore

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Alan Green

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.

Alan Green

As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

Al Sharpton

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment' to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns....

Aiden Wilson Tozer

No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. But what shall we do with our freedom? The Apostle Paul grieved that some of the believers of his day took advantage of their freedom and indulged the flesh in the name of Christian liberty. They threw off discipline, scorned obedience and made gods of their own bellies.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one