Best habit & christian Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.”

Soul Body Christian Passion Evil Sin Humility Habit Devil Casts Heal Excitement Rejecting Infirmity Evil Thoughts

Author:Theophan the Recluse

“To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.”

Mind Helping Christian Religion Worry Minutes Habit Cures Fifteen Filling

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.”

Stills Christian Law Belief Modern Century Habit Eternal Harmony Evolve Assumption Laws Of Nature Belief Systems Modern Science

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.”

Knows Persons Christian Desire Father House Christ Church Rooms Atheism Habit Positive Atheism Convinced Mourning Departure Splendor Mansions Ardent

Book:The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

Source: The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

“The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events”

Mind Believe Christian Events Habit Extraordinary Primitive Mystic

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.”

Christian Prayer Morning Atheism Habit Positive Atheism Worldly Old Habits Morning Prayer

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly interwoven with their whole course of legislation that it would be impossible to change them without affecting the very essence of their government.”

Whole Government Would Be Christian Form Courses Religious Moral Impossible Habit Essence Bases Legislation

Book:Americans

Source: Americans

“Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.”

Way Believe Body Christian Order Belief Christianity Habit Worship Determined Doctrine

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.”

Ifs Feels May Christian Spiritual Week Duty Hair Habit Quiet Careful Conversion Dry Spiritual Life Grooming Quiet Time Personal Grooming

Book:WOMAN TO WOMAN

Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN

“Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Firsts Doe Christian Hate Causes Religious Sin Humility Habit Gains Abandon Orthodox Confession Can Not Enmity Sinning Remission True Humility

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”

Source: The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster

“The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.”

Christian Habit Fellowship Rapture Fellowship With God

Book:The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Feelings Care Christian Form Law Belief Taken Atheism Childhood Habit Our Children Slave Positive Atheism Paris Customs Bent False Gods

Author:Voltaire

“Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.”

Looks Character Helping Christian Spiritual Form Growth Results Our Lives Habit Method Prepared Traditional Spiritual Growth Stem Vitality Formation Spiritual Formation

Book:The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

Source: The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

“Always be ready to give a good testimony for the Lord, but remember that the best testimony a Christian can have is a love for others and good work habits.”

Giving Christian Remember Lord Ready Habit Good Work Testimony Work Habits

Book:Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

Source: Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

“I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.”

Ifs Men Trying Mind Believe Heart Hard Christian Evil I Believe Religious Habit Devil Tricks Wasting Time Engaging

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.”

Knows Giving Trying Littles Running Christian Names Grief Talking Habit Give Me Police Plus Twins Worn Apologizing Worn Out

Book:Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)

Source: Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)

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