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“The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.”
Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“The Christian has been drawn unto Christ. Those who wish to boast in having something to do with their salvation, or who insist that the final decision lays with man, resist the clear meaning of Christ's words, "draw." But this is a wondrous term. It is beautiful to hear. Drawn in love. Drawn in mercy. Drawn unto the one who died in my place. It is sovereign action, undertaken by the one who holds the entire universe by His power. It is an irresistible drawing, most definitely, but is a drawing of grace. The one drawing loves the one who is being drawn. And those drawn can never be thankful enough to God who brought them out of darkness into the marvelous light of Christ.”
“The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.”
“The Christian historian, like the non-Christian, does valuable service if he does no more than to clear the minds of his audience of some of the nonsense of the slogans and mythologies of his era.”
“The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.”
Source: Jesus for President
“The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.”
“The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.”
Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley
“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
Source: What's Wrong with the World
“The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'”
“The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...
“The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
“The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.”
Source: Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings
“The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.”
“The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.”
“The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.”
“The Christian is an idol breaker.”
“The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.”
Source: Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare
“The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.”
“The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!”
“The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.”
“The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.”
“The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure - a transcendent power! That is humanity as God intended it to be. The vessel is not much in itself, but it holds an inestimable treasure, beyond price, and a transcendent power, greater than any other power known to men.”
“The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.”
“The Christian is not free to do what the Bible forbids. Christian freedom does not entail the right to fornicate or to steal or to lie or to persist in an unforgiving attitude or to do anything else the Scriptures explicitly prohibit. And a person who lovingly points this out to you is not a legalist for having done so!”
“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”
“The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.”
“The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.”
“The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth. If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity, and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion at the expense of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: "Help and not Fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension".”
“The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'”
“The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.”
“The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.”
Source: Commentary on the New Testament
“The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.”
Source: Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 16: 1870
“The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
Source: Art and the Bible: Two Essays
“The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events; he has risen with Christ.”
“The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“The Christian Journey is not just to a place "Heaven", it is also to a person "Jesus". Ephesians 4:13 says "Till we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”
“The Christian journey is truly an exciting endeavor be-cause we become eyewitnesses to the holy activity of a wonderful God in our lives on a daily basis. One of the great marvels of the faith is that we are transformed into testifiers of His strength and grace in the midst of major obstacles.”
“The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.”
Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?
“The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.”
“The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.”
Source: The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath Way of Life for Those Who Serve God, the Church, and the World
“The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.”
Source: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
“The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.”
“The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.”
Source: The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee
“The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.”
“The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.”
Source: A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1926-27
“The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.”