Quotes for Encouragement

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Corrie ten Boom

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Philip Yancey

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Henri Nouwen

It is unimaginable what God can make of the fragments of our life, when we surrender them to him completely.

Blaise Pascal

For those who love God, he turns everything into good, even their wrong turns and mistakes God lets become good for them.

Augustine of Hippo

God has his ear at your heart.

Augustine of Hippo

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

Hans Peter Royer

Those who wait on God lose nothing by waiting.

Corrie ten Boom

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

Craig Groeschel

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

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

Hans Peter Royer

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

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

Eugene Peterson

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

Craig Groeschel

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

God has not called us to success, only to faithfulness.

Mother Teresa

Commit your ways and whatever grieves your heart to the most faithful care of him who governs heaven! He who gives paths, course, and way to clouds, air, and winds will also find a way for your foot to walk.

Paul Gerhardt

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away. God never changes. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

Teresa of Ávila

That the birds of worry and grief fly over your head, you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair — that you can prevent.

Martin Luther

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

May I be the thinking heart of this barrack. I would like to be it again. I would like to be the thinking heart of an entire concentration camp.

Etty Hillesum

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Corrie ten Boom

God does not fulfill all our wishes, but all his promises.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.

Robert Murray McCheyne

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

Tim Keller

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created.

C.S. Lewis

Whatever tomorrow may bring, our God is a God of tomorrow too.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worrying does not take away tomorrow's sorrow, it takes away today's strength.

Corrie ten Boom

We don't need great faith, but faith in a great God.

Hudson Taylor

I want you to know that we will reach God's kingdom. That's why I am happy today. I am not worried about anything. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming Lord.

Martin Luther King Jr.

People quoted here

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Corrie ten Boom, Philip Yancey, Henri Nouwen, Blaise Pascal, Augustine of Hippo, Hans Peter Royer, Craig Groeschel, Tim Keller, Arno Backhaus, Anselm Grün, John MacArthur

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