Quotes for Birthday & Anniversary

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

When you see a child, you catch God in the act.

Martin Luther

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Frederick Buechner

You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.

Max Lucado

Joy is the power for life, the momentum for love, and the delight in the creative beginning.

Jürgen Moltmann

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

Marilynne Robinson

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.

Hodding Carter

There are two great days in a person's life: the day we are born and the day we discover why.

William Barclay

Joy is the meaning of all life. We are created for joy.

Jürgen Moltmann

Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.

Richard Rohr

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Helen Keller

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles Swindoll

You are the result of the attentive, careful, thoughtful, intimate, detailed, creative work of God. Your personality, your sex, your height, your features, are what they are because God made them precisely that way. He made you the way He did because that is the way he wants you to be… If God had wanted you to be basically and creatively different He would have made you differently. Your genes and chromosomes and creaturely distinctives – even the shape of your nose and ears – are what they are by God’s design.

James Hufstetler

Now where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never-failing Friend?

Jonathan Edwards

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Andy Stanley

Three things have remained to us from paradise: stars, flowers, and children.

Dante Alighieri

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Karl Barth

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too.

Henri Nouwen

We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

Dallas Willard

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

John Flavel

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Rick Warren

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Ronald Reagan

With birth, a unique word is, as it were, given to the human being.

Romano Guardini

Old people have usually forgotten that they were young, or they forget that they are old, and the young never understand that they can grow old.

Kurt Tucholsky

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

Life is a privilege, not a reward.

Kate Bowler

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

Maya Angelou

One never feels the hand of God more powerfully over oneself than when looking back upon the years of one's past life.

Martin Luther

Having life still ahead of you is no pure pleasure. Having life largely behind you is by no means pure dread.

Notker Wolf

Nothing is ours by nature. Our very existence is sheer gift.

Peter Kreeft

No child is just a child. Each is a creature in whom God intends to do something glorious and great.

Eugene Peterson

May you have warm words on a cold evening, the full moon on a dark night, and a gentle tailwind on your way home.

Jakob Abrell

Every human being is created to love and to be loved.

Mother Teresa

Youth should not be sad, but cheerful and glad. Young people should be full of cheer.

Martin Luther

Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it probably comes only to those who in their youth were neither wise nor prudent.

Hanna Ahrens

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People quoted here

Martin Luther, Frederick Buechner, Max Lucado, Jürgen Moltmann, Marilynne Robinson, Hodding Carter, William Barclay, Richard Rohr, Charles Dickens, Helen Keller, William Shakespeare, Charles Swindoll

Related

Encouragement, Comfort, Gratitude, Wedding & Marriage, Baptism, Confirmation & Blessing, Farewell & Funeral, New Year & New Beginnings, Morning & Evening, The Church Year, For Reflection

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