Christianity Quotes - Page 5

Love gives you eyes.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers-he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not of the earth.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.

People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured.
Blessed are you who honour this day.

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy.

When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word “happiness” was
derived from the same root “hap”, similar to the word “happening.” Depending on what's happening in our lives, we're either happy or sad. It's based on pure luck and good fortune.