Quotes on God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit

Christian quotes on God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit — 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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I would not be able to seek you if you had not already found me.

Augustine of Hippo

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

Martin Luther

God does not love us because we are lovable, but because his nature is love.

Oswald Chambers

God seeks you more than your offering.

Augustine of Hippo

God has his ear at your heart.

Augustine of Hippo

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

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

N.T. Wright

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

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

Henri Nouwen

Go forth, my heart, and seek joy in this lovely summertime, in the gifts of your God. Behold the beauty of the gardens' adornment, and see how they have decked themselves for me and for you.

Paul Gerhardt

Great are you, Lord, and highly to be praised. Man, this tiny part of your creation, wants to praise you. You yourself stir him to delight in praising you, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Augustine of Hippo

What I think of Jesus? That he holds me.

Lothar Zenetti

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

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Thomas Merton

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

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

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

Hudson Taylor

God’s love does not seek what is lovable, but creates it.

Martin Luther

Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good, but to make dead people alive.

Leonard Ravenhill

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God doesn’t love us because of our worth, we are of worth because God loves us.

Martin Luther

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Martin Luther

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.

John Owen

Where reason is outraged, where our nature rebels, where our piety anxiously keeps its distance — there, precisely there, God loves to be.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C.S. Lewis

It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because He shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

Blaise Pascal

Look for yourself and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C.S. Lewis

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Richard Sibbes

You called, You cried, You shattered my deafness, You sparkled, You blazed, You drove away my blindness, You shed Your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.

Augustine of Hippo

God loves humanity. God loves the world. Not an ideal human being, but the human being as he is; not an ideal world, but the real world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Tim Keller

People quoted here

Augustine of Hippo, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther, Oswald Chambers, John Mark Comer, N.T. Wright, Pope Francis, Anselm Grün, Henri Nouwen, Paul Gerhardt, Lothar Zenetti, C.S. Lewis

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