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Included here are my favorite Christian quotes I've run into in various places.  From scripture to bumper stickers to audio messages to books and the web, there are many good quotes that help to glorify God and build up others in the faith.   Many more quotes are in the Excerpts section, organized by book.  



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Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood.

Author: Anonymous Category: Salvation, Christ Rating: 
A woman rushed up to famed violinist Fritz Kreisler after a concert and cried: "I'd give my life to play as beautifully as you do." Kreisler replied, "I did." Even nature teaches us that results require long, hard, patient, careful work. The Christian life is no different.

Author: Anonymous Category: Christian Life, Maturity, Perseverance, Labor Rating: 
I live in eternity 6 days a week. On the 7th I come down to earth and share my revelations.

Author: Anonymous Category: Preaching, Eternity Rating: 
At any point in all of eternity, we can say "this is just the beginning."

Author: Anonymous Category: Eternity Rating: 
The Christian life is a life of paradox's. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live.

Author: Anonymous Category: Christian Life Rating: 
If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

Author: Asahel Nettleton Category: Evangelism, Perspective Rating: 
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

Author: Asaph Category: God, Zeal Rating: 
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Author: C.S. Lewis Category: Christianity Rating: 
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for.

Author: Charles Spurgeon Category: Prayer, Preaching Rating: 
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

Author: David Brainerd Category: Grace Rating: 
'Farewell, vain world; my soul can bid Adieu. My Savior taught me to abandon you. Your charms may gratify a sensual mind. But cannot please a soul for God Designed.

Author: David Brainerd Category: Zeal, The World Rating: 
I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Author: David Brainerd Category: Eternity Rating: 
Is what you're living for worth Christ dying for?

Author: Epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill Category: Perspective Rating: 
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

Author: Horatius Bonar Category: Eternity Rating: 
(After losing his beloved wife, Hudson Taylor wrote in his journal) Love gave the blow that for a little while makes the desert more dreary, but Heaven more homelike

Author: Hudson Taylor Category: Love, Heaven, Affliction Rating: 
I can seldom read scripture now without tears of joy and gratitude

Author: Hudson Taylor Category: Prayer, Gratitude Rating: 
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Affliction Rating: 
If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Salvation Rating: 
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Selfishness, Obedience, Emotions, Temptation Rating: 
Before Abraham was... I AM

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Jesus Christ Rating: 
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Perspective Rating: 
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I AM, ye shall die in your sins.

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Faith, Salvation, Trinity Rating: 
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Christian life Rating: 
Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Labor Rating: 
Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Sin, Obedience Rating: 
Father, glorify thy name.

Author: Jesus Christ Category: Praise Rating: 
Though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust in Him

Author: Job Category: Faith Rating: 
He must increase, but I must decrease.

Author: John the Baptist Category: Humility Rating: 
Jesus didn't come to make bad men do good things. He came to make dead men live.

Author: Leonard Ravenhill Category: Salvation Rating: 
Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.

Author: Leonard Ravenhill Category: Judgment, Eternity Rating: 
There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

Author: Martin Luther Category: Judgment, Eternity Rating: 
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

Author: Martin Luther Category: Scripture Rating: 
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

Author: Matthew Henry Category: Repentance Rating: 
Very few people have the grace of being special without also being aware of that specialness. But in Heaven the lowest Christian will be a king, and he can enjoy all the honors of royalty without vanity or pride.

Author: Michael Phillips Category: Humility Rating: 
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Author: Sundar Singh Category: Selfishness Rating: 
In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

Author: William Booth Category: Modern Church Rating: 
You know they boasted about the Titanic, that it was the one ship that could not be sunk. Somebody said ‘God Almighty can’t sink this ship’ You can be pretty sure when somebody says something like that it’s going to sink on it’s first voyage. But there is one ship that isn’t going to sink.. and that’s the church

Author: Zac Poonen Category: Pride, The Church Rating: 
If you can find it in the scripture plainly you're on solid ground. If you can't, you may just be going on a good idea.

Author: Anonymous Category: Doctrine Rating: 
What was Jesus' main goal while He was on earth? To be crucified? No! It was to do the will of His Father. And that must be our goal also.

Author: Anonymous Category: Obedience Rating: 
Wisdom is practical knowledge

Author: Anonymous Category: Wisdom Rating: 
Somerset Maughan's mother was an extraordinarily beautiful woman married to an extraordinarily ugly man. When a family friend once asked how such a beautiful woman could have married such an ugly man, she replied, "He has never once hurt my feelings."

Author: Anonymous Category: Kindness Rating: 
Whoever would preach must also beseech

Author: Anonymous Category: Evangelism, Preaching, Zeal Rating: 
A minister of God's word needs a deep love and longing for his people that dwindles his bible knowledge.

Author: Anonymous Category: Preaching Rating: 
99% of the time we can find God's will for our specific situation directly in scripture. But since we desire our own will so much, we deceive ourselves and say 'God's will is so hard to know, and scripture is so hard to understand.' Our problem is not understanding God's word, our problem is obeying it.

Author: Anonymous Category: Sin, Obedience, Scripture Rating: 
The closest in this life you can get to what Heaven will be like is in prayer.

Author: Anonymous Category: Prayer, Heaven Rating: 
If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

Author: C.S. Lewis Category: Perspective Rating: 
(speaking of Jesus) "He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration."

Author: C.S. Lewis Category: Jesus Christ Rating: 
Only one life, twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last

Author: C.T. Studd Category: Death, Perspective, Labor Rating: 
Captain Levy, a believer from Philadelphia, was once asked how he could give so much to the Lord's work and still possess great wealth. The Captain replied, "Oh, as I shovel it out, He shovels it in, and the Lord has a bigger shovel."

Author: Captain Levy Category: Giving Rating: 
Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Author: Charles Spurgeon Category: Wisdom Rating: 
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that.

Author: Charles Spurgeon Category: Evangelism Rating: 
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes

Author: David Category: Affliction Rating: 
... my soul was grieved for the congregation, that they should sit there to hear such a dead dog as I preach, I thought myself infinitely indebted to the people, and longed that God would reward them with the rewards of his grace.

Author: David Brainerd Category: Preaching Rating: 
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Author: David Brainerd Category: Prosperity Rating: 
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Author: David Brainerd Category: Prayer Rating: 
I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

Author: David Brainerd Category: Prayer Rating: 
In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the men were in some measure afraid of me; and I discoursed something about sanctifying the sabbath, if possible to solemnize their minds: but when they were at a little distance, they again talked freely about secular affairs. Oh, I thought what a hell it would be, to live with such men to eternity!

Author: David Brainerd Category: Speech, The World Rating: 
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Author: G.K. Chesterton Category: Christianity Rating: 
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge Category: Puritans, Labor Rating: 
I have learned to move man by prayer alone

Author: Hudson Taylor Category: Prayer Rating: 
(speaking of what self denial means) "To refuse what we know to be deadly poison, though agreeable to the taste"

Author: John Wesley Category: Self Denial Rating: 
Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.

Author: Leonard Ravenhill Category: Preaching, Holy Spirit Rating: 
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

Author: Leonard Ravenhill Category: Judgment Rating: 
Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

Author: Martin Luther Category: Faith, Emotions Rating: 
People in close communion with God are the only realists. Often worldly men are considered realistic, and Christians are put up on a cloud somewhere... we dont know what's going on. But real earthy men, they're the one's who are very realistic... Nonsense. Only ones who are in touch with their maker see things realistically.

Author: Michael Phillips Category: The World, Perspective Rating: 
Death isn't going from beggar to dead beggar, but beggar to king.

Author: Michael Phillips Category: Death Rating: 
O then if desperate souls might but return, and once more be tried with the means of life, what joyful tidings would it be! How welcome would the messenger be that brings it! Had hell but such an offer as this, and would any cries procure it from their righteous judge, O what a change would be among them! How importunately would they cry to God, 'O send us once again unto the earth! ... O try us once more with such a life, and see whether we will not contemn the world, close with Christ, live as strictly, and pray as earnestly as those that we hated and abused for so doing!

Author: Richard Baxter Category: Urgency Rating: 
'For there is no work nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest,' that is, it must be now or never: the grave, where thy work cannot be done, will quickly end thy opportunities.

Author: Richard Baxter Category: Death, Zeal Rating: 
If you find yourself so anxious to do something that it can't wait, it's probably not of God

Author: Robert Thompson Category: Patience Rating: 
'The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,....neither can he know them' (1 Cor. 2:14). He may have more insight into the things of the world than a believer, but he does not see the deep things of God. A swine may see an acorn under a tree, but he cannot see a star.

Author: Thomas Watson Category: Perspective Rating: 
William Booth, the leader of the Salvation Army, wished he could suspend each one of his Salvation Army officers over hell for 24 hours. "If they could see the flames and smell the smoke and feel the heat and hear the cries of the damned, they would go out to preach what they had seen and heard. They would then preach like dying men to dying people."

Author: William Booth Category: Preaching Rating: 
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

Author: William Gurnall Category: God Rating: 
Very few things in life matter.

Author: A. W. Tozer Category: Perspective Rating: 
God is never in a hurry, but God is never late

Author: Adrian Rodgers Category: God, Patience Rating: 
Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Author: Alexander Maclaren Category: Evangelism, Kindness Rating: 
A moment of carelessness can make a thousand miles of difference

Author: Anonymous Category: Christian Life, Seriousness Rating: 
Doesn’t nature teach that results require much hard and careful work? The spiritual life is no different.

Author: Anonymous Category: Christian Life, Perseverance, Labor Rating: 
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist

Author: Anonymous Category: Satan Rating: 
Satan doesn't have to make bow down to him; he just has to keep you from Jesus.

Author: Anonymous Category: Satan Rating: 
In the morning rest your elbows on the windowsills of Heaven, and gaze upon thy Lord. Then, with that vision in your heart, go forth to meet the day.

Author: Anonymous Category: Christian Life Rating: 
Earth: its joys and its griefs should never occupy a moment of my thoughts for these are but the affairs of a portion of eternity so small that no language can express it's comparatively infinite littleness.

Author: Anonymous Category: Eternity, Perspective Rating: 
One of the best tests of whether a person is a mature Christian is what he does with his leisure time.

Author: Anonymous Category: Christian Life, Sluggishness Rating: 
The sheep that stick closest to the Lord get the extra nuggets that fall out of his pocket

Author: Anonymous Category: Devotion Rating: 
Our heart toward the Lord cannot always be expressed with words. Use groans and tears often.

Author: Anonymous Category: Prayer Rating: 
Getting on your knees keeps you from falling.

Author: Anonymous Category: Prayer Rating: 
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Author: Anonymous Category: Work Rating: 
What about people that have never heard the gospel? Does God send them to Hell? I'll say this: nobody will be there that doesn’t deserve to be.

Author: Anonymous Category: Hell Rating: 
Do your giving while you're living so you're knowing where it's going.

Author: Anonymous Category: Giving Rating: 
The wicked of today hate to hear the word 'repent!'. The wicked of the past wish they could hear it just once more.

Author: Anonymous Category: Repentance Rating: 
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.

Author: C.S. Lewis Category: Desires Rating: 
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

Author: C.S. Lewis Category: Faith Rating: 
Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

Author: Charles H. Brent Category: Prayer Rating: 
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.

Author: Charles Spurgeon Category: Temptation Rating: 
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe.

Author: D.L. Moody Category: Perspective Rating: 
Work as if everything depended on you and pray as if everything depended on God.

Author: D.L. Moody Category: Prayer, Labor Rating: 
Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

Author: David Brainerd Category: God Rating: 
I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence…

Author: David Brainerd Category: Love Rating: 
...it is better to be alone than encumbered with noise and tumult. I find it very difficult maintaining any sense of divine things while removing from place to place diverted with new objects, and filled with care and business. A settled steady business is best adapted to a life of strict religion.

Author: David Brainerd Category: The World Rating: 
The Lord help me to press after God forever

Author: David Brainerd Category: Diligence Rating: 
After gazing a crowd who didn't really believe his message, George Whitefield threw his head back and said "I'm willing to go to the ends of the earth for you, but I'm not willing to go to Heaven without you."

Author: George Whitefield Category: Love, Preaching Rating: 
There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

Author: Gloria Gaither Category: Prayer Rating: 
The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

Author: James S. Stewart Category: The Gospel Rating: 
The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

Author: Jeremy Taylor Category: Preaching, Scripture Rating: 
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Author: Jim Elliot Category: Perspective Rating: 
Means must be neither trusted nor neglected

Author: John Trapp Category: Work Rating: 
The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean.

Author: Jonathan Edwards Category: Perspective Rating: 
Calamity clarifies and comfort confuses,Persecution purifies and prosperity pollutes!

Author: Kevin Turner Category: Prosperity, Persecution Rating: 
Praying Christians know nothing of their friends

Author: Leonard Ravenhill Category: Prayer Rating: 
I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Author: Martin Luther Category: Faith, Giving Rating: 
We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

Author: Martin Luther Category: Death Rating: 
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Author: Martin Luther Category: Study Rating: 
We should die relying on grace alone

Author: Martin Luther Category: Death Rating: 
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

Author: Martin Luther Category: Preaching Rating: 
Every Christian's happiness adds to my own.

Author: Michael Phillips Category: Love Rating: 
Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte Category: The World Rating: 
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Author: Richard Baxter Category: Preaching Rating: 
That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

Author: Richard Baxter Category: Urgency Rating: 
It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.

Author: Richard Baxter Category: Diligence Rating: 
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Author: Richard Baxter quoting Seneca Category: Knowledge, Wisdom Rating: 
Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Perseverance Rating: 
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Author: Samuel Chadwick Category: Prayer Rating: 
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

Author: Susanna Wesley Category: Perspective Rating: 
Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Author: Thomas Goodwin Category: Obedience Rating: 
How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

Author: Thomas Watson Category: Hell Rating: 
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Author: Thomas Watson Category: Death, The World Rating: 
None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

Author: Thomas Watson Category: Pride Rating: 
The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?

Author: Thomas Watson Category: The World Rating: 
How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

Author: Thomas Watson Category: Prosperity Rating: 
One verse in every six in the first three Gospels relates either directly or indirectly to money. Sixteen of our Lords forty-four parables deal with the use and misuse of money. A loving, joyful, liberal giving to the Lord's work is an acid test of a spiritual heart, pleasing to God.

Author: William Allen Category: Money Rating: 
All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

Author: William Carey Category: God Rating: 
God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

Author: William Gurnall Category: Atonement Rating: 
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

Author: William Gurnall Category: Fear of God Rating: 
In Heaven there is a song – ‘thou alone art worthy’

Author: Zac Poonen Category: Praise Rating: 
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

Author: A. W. Tozer Category: Hell, Judgment Rating: 
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Author: A. W. Tozer Category: Pride Rating: 
No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Author: A. W. Tozer Category: Emotions Rating: 
The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

Author: A. W. Tozer Category: Faith, Salvation Rating: 
People talk about the curse of sin, but they do not understand that the whole nature has been infected by sin, and that the curse is on everything. My intellect, has that been defiled by sin? Terribly, and the curse of sin is on it, and therefore my intellect must go down into the death. Ah, I believe that the Church of Christ suffers more today from trusting in intellect, in sagacity, in culture, and in mental refinement, than from almost anything else. The Spirit of the world comes in, and men seek by their wisdom, and by their knowledge, to help the Gospel, and they rob it of its crucifixion mark. Christ directed Paul to go and preach the Gospel of the cross, but to do it not with wisdom of words. The curse of sin is on all that is of nature.

Author: Andrew Murray Category: Preaching, Knowledge Rating: 
The greatest man who ever lived needed to borrow a penny to illustrate a lesson (Matthew 22:19).

Author: Anonymous Category: Prosperity Rating: 
Some people complain that God placed thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

Author: Anonymous Category: Grace, Contentment Rating: 
What are you going to say on judgment day?

Author: Anonymous Category: Judgment Rating: 
Why do people deny God exists and then blame Him for the chaos that results?

Author: Anonymous Category: The World Rating: 
God has made enough in this world for every man’s need, but not enough in this world for even one man’s greed

Author: Anonymous Category: Greed Rating: