Quotes for For Reflection

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

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Augustine of Hippo

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

C.S. Lewis

Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Henri Nouwen

When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer does not change God, but the one who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.

Oswald Chambers

It is better to be a patient of Christ than a doctor of theology.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I asked God for many things so that I could enjoy life. God gave me life, so that I could enjoy all things.

Gertrud von le Fort

[The Bible is] shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim.

Augustine of Hippo

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

Tim Keller

God is closer to us than we are to ourselves.

Augustine of Hippo

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

The devil is a better theologian than any of us, and he is still a devil.

A.W. Tozer

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, do not forget the duty to love yourself.

Søren Kierkegaard

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

John Charles Ryle

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

Anselm Grün

The Father’s love does not force itself on the beloved.

Henri Nouwen

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it but because, by it, I see everything else.

C.S. Lewis

We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish; but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy.

Francis of Assisi

What I think of Jesus? That he holds me.

Lothar Zenetti

My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior!

John Newton

But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

Jenny, God has made me for a purpose – for China; but He has also made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure

Eric Liddell

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair

Martin Luther

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

In essential unity; in nonessentials liberty; in all this charity.

Rupertus Meldenius

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Martin Luther King Jr.

People quoted here

Augustine of Hippo, Mother Teresa, C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henri Nouwen, Oswald Chambers, Søren Kierkegaard, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gertrud von le Fort, Tim Keller, John Mark Comer, Craig Groeschel

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