T Quotes
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“The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.”
Source: Who Am I?: New Testament Pictures of the Christian Life
“The Christian life is a state of thankful discontent or joyful dissatisfaction. That is, I live every day thankful for the grace that has changed my life, but I am not satisfied. Why not? Because, when I look at myself honestly, I have to admit that I am not all I can be in Christ. I am thankful for the many things in my life that would not be there without his grace, but I will not settle for a partial inheritance!”
Source: How People Change
“The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.”
“The Christian life is an exciting adventure in which God does incredible things in our lives.”
Source: The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians
“The Christian life is anything but boring.”
“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”
“The Christian life is not a horror movie; it is a love story. We should never live in fear of our Abba.”
Source: The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians
“The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God--it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.”
Source: A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life
“The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.”
“The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.”
“The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.”
“The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.”
“The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.”
“The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.”
Source: Crossing the Line of Faith: Help Your Friends Know God in a Style That Fits You
“The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.”
Source: Ethics
“The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.”
“The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!”
“The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.”
“The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.”
“The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.”
Source: Astonished: Recapturing the Wonder, Awe, and Mystery of Life with God
“The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.”
“The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.”
Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.”
“The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.”
Source: The Sign of Jonas
“The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.”
“The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered him from the reign of sin, when he begins to see that he is united to Him who has all power and authority and that it is possible to walk in obedience, he begins to have hope, and as he hopes in Christ, he begins to have joy. In the strength of this joy, he begins to overcome the sins that have so easily entangle him. He then finds that the joy of a holy walk is infinitely more satisfying than the fleeting pleasures of sin. But to experience this joy, we must make some choices. We must choose to forsake sin, not only because it is defeating to us but because it grieves the heart of God.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.”
“The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.”
“The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.”
Source: Marching off the map: and other sermons
“The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we are to serve eternal life.”
“The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.”
“The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.”
“The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.”
“The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.”
Source: Jung on Christianity
“The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it!”
“The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.”
“The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.”
Source: The Select Works of the Rev. John Newton: ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life & C
“The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong”
“The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.”
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 must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.”
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 needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.”
Source: Life Together
“The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.”
“The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”
Source: Concern for the Church
“The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.”
“The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?”
“The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.”