Quotes from today

Christian quotes from today — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.

Max Lucado

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Philip Yancey

No one can fall deeper than into the hand of God.

Peter Hahne

God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.

Hans Peter Royer

The strongest faith isn't a faith that never doubts. Rather, it's a faith that grows through doubts.

Craig Groeschel

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

Unknown

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Tim Keller

God helps at the latest, just in time.

Arno Backhaus

Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.

Anselm Grün

There is a God, and I'm not him.

John Mark Comer

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

Craig Groeschel

Every time I say, "Jesus, I'm not capable...", He says, "So what? I am capable."

Hans Peter Royer

God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.

John Piper

God always finishes what He starts.

John MacArthur

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

Craig Groeschel

Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.

Craig Groeschel

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Tim Keller

Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.

Eugene Peterson

In a sense, learning to follow Jesus is simply learning to pray the Lord’s Prayer.

N.T. Wright

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

Craig Groeschel

The Church is not a cultural club, but the family of Jesus.

Pope Francis

The soul is the inner place where man touches the Divine.

Anselm Grün

Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.

Jerry Bridges

What I think of Jesus? That he holds me.

Lothar Zenetti

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Frederick Buechner

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Joni Eareckson Tada

To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Tim Keller

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Tim Keller

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

Tim Keller

You don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

Tim Keller

On the cross, God treated Jesus as if he had lived your life, so that God could treat you as if you had lived Jesus' life.

John MacArthur

When you forgive someone, you set a prisoner free, but then you discover that the real prisoner was you.

Lewis Smedes

God loves you unconditionally, as you are, and not as you should be — for you will never become as you should be.

Brennan Manning

Christ accepts us as we are, but he does not leave us as we are.

Ingrid Trobisch

Do not be afraid of Christ. He demands nothing and he gives everything.

Pope Benedict XVI

You can never fall deeper than into the open hands of God.

Arno Backhaus

Praying means asking for rain, believing means bringing an umbrella too.

Unknown

God made us to love people and use things. Our problem is that we love things and use people.

Unknown

Having no arms and legs isn't as bad as having no hope!

Nick Vujicic

People quoted here

Max Lucado, Philip Yancey, Peter Hahne, Hans Peter Royer, Craig Groeschel, Unknown, Tim Keller, Arno Backhaus, Anselm Grün, John Mark Comer, John Piper, John MacArthur

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The Early Church, The Middle Ages, Reformation & Baroque, Revival & the 19th Century, The 20th Century

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