Quotes about Christianity

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we read the Bible not with a desperate hunger for evidences of God's triumph in pain, but with a view to improving our private pleasures.

Knowledge about Him will not do. Work for Him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with Him; otherwise, Christianity becomes a joyless burden.

O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine?

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.

Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

Jesus - "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9).

Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.

Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake; it's like powder in the shell.