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Image of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Collection: Christian
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A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Collection: Christian
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The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Collection: Christian
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There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Collection: Christian
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There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Collection: Christian
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People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Collection: Christian
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The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Collection: Christian
Image of John Calvin
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
- John Calvin
Collection: Christian
Image of John Flavel
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.
- John Flavel
Collection: Christian
Image of John Flavel
[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.
- John Flavel
Collection: Christian
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If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.
- John Flavel
Collection: Christian
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The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
- John Flavel
Collection: Christian
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What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.
- John Flavel
Collection: Christian
Image of Ambrose
... these three witnesses are one, as John said: 'The water, the blood, and the Spirit' (I Jn. 5:8). One in the mystery, not in nature. The water, then, is a witness of burial, the blood is a witness of death, the Spirit is a witness of life. If, then, there be any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water, but from the presence of the Holy Spirit.
- Ambrose
Collection: Christian
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... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the image of the Father, and in the Spirit the seal of the Son. Let us, then, sealed by this Trinity, take more diligent heed, lest either levity of character or the deceit of any unfaithfulness unseal the pledge which we have received in our hearts.
- Ambrose
Collection: Christian
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... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the hearts of men, bore witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as was given to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith' (Acts 15:8-9). In which is to be considered, that as Christ is the Cornerstone, Who joined together both peoples into one, so, too, the Holy Spirit made no distinction between the hearts of each people, but united them.
- Ambrose
Collection: Christian
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Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Christian
Image of Oswald Chambers
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Christian
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Christian
Image of James Martineau
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.
- James Martineau
Collection: Christian
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Christian
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Christian
Image of Louis de Montfort
We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called "hypothetical", (that is, because God so willed it), the Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for men to attain their final end. Consequently we must not place devotion to her on the same level as devotion to the other saints as if it were merely something optional.
- Louis de Montfort
Collection: Christian
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The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that devotion to our Blessed Lady is necessary to attain salvation.
- Louis de Montfort
Collection: Christian
Image of Silouan the Athonite
The man who knows the delight of the love of God ? when the soul warmed by grace, loves both God and her brother ? knows in part that 'the kingdom of God is within us'. Blessed is the soul that loves her brother, for our brother is our life.
- Silouan the Athonite
Collection: Christian
Image of Samuel Chadwick
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
- Samuel Chadwick
Collection: Christian
Image of Theodore L. Cuyler
When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms.
- Theodore L. Cuyler
Collection: Christian
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The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.
- Theodore L. Cuyler
Collection: Christian
Image of Tim Kaine
When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them on the battlefield, but you say, "But, of course, there's gonna be an exception if you're a religious minority," - OK, so that means Christians, there will be a different rule applied to Christians from these countries than others - that's a religious test. And that is completely contrary to our national traditions.
- Tim Kaine
Collection: Christian
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I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.
- Wesley Clark
Collection: Christian
Image of Victor J. Stenger
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And even if they did, why would the Prime Mover need to be a supernatural anthropomorphic deity such as the Judeo - Christian God? Why could it not just as well be the material universe itself?
- Victor J. Stenger
Collection: Christian
Image of Origen
You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.
- Origen
Collection: Christian
Image of Thomas Traherne
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.
- Thomas Traherne
Collection: Christian
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By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.
- Thomas Traherne
Collection: Christian
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... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
Collection: Christian
Image of Frederick Buechner
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
- Frederick Buechner
Collection: Christian
Image of Saint John Chrysostom
Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.
- Saint John Chrysostom
Collection: Christian
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When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.
- Saint John Chrysostom
Collection: Christian
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If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.
- Saint John Chrysostom
Collection: Christian
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Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.
- Saint John Chrysostom
Collection: Christian
Image of Carolyn Wells
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
- Carolyn Wells
Collection: Christian
Image of Hannah Whitall Smith
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
Collection: Christian
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It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
Collection: Christian
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Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, -intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
Collection: Christian
Image of Frederick Buechner
I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much.
- Frederick Buechner
Collection: Christian
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Christian
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The test of happiness is gratitude.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Christian
Image of George Carlin
The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.
- George Carlin
Collection: Christian
Image of John of Damascus
Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible. God being perfect becomes perfect man, and brings to perfection the newest of all new things (cf. Eccles 1:10), the only new thing under the sun, through which the boundless might of God is manifested. For what greater thing is there than that God should become man?
- John of Damascus
Collection: Christian