Thursday, 6 March 2008

Christian Quotes

So Mark and i had the idea of compiling some quotes from Christians who lived throughout history until the present day. If you click the pictures or leave your cursor over them it should show you who they are. I hope this is helpful and insightful for anyone passing by, and please let us know if you have any suggestions that we might want to include.

Psalm 51

Higher higher, nothing dreading,
Never, never let me stop,
In thy footsteps keep me treading,
Give me strength to reach the top.
- Smith Wigglesworth

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, the no sacrifice can be too great fr me to make for Him.
- C.T.Studd


A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning.
-Leonard Ravenhill

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
-Leonard Ravenhill

You knew one thing about a man carrying His cross out of the city; you knew he wasn't coming back.
- A.W. Tozer

Trust and obey, there's no other way.
- Leonarrd Ravenhill

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.
- Charles Spurgeon

Of two evils, choose neither.
- Charles Spurgeon

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and second advent splendour.
- Charles Spurgeon


We are a moment, you are forever.
- Be Unto Your Name (Hymn)

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tip-toe.
- D.L. Moody

Earth is receding; heaven is approaching. This is my crowning day.
- D.L. Moody (Last Words)

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion, with the whole world around you damned?
- Leonard Ravenhill


We're still paddling on the edge of the ocean of the possibilities of Grace.
- Leonard Ravenhill


God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
- William Booth

I love to live on the brink of eternity.
- David Brainerd

As long as i see anything to be done for God , life is worth having; but o how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
- David Brainerd

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching.
- E.M. Bounds

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
- Jonathan Edwards

All roads lead to the judgement seat of Christ.
- Keith Green

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that i tried to save them.
- Keith Green

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal Godliness.
- William Carey

When Christ calls a man, he bids Him come and die.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
- Richard Baxter

But the soul renounced shall reside in the boundlessness of God life. This is liberty, this is prosperity. The more we lose the more we gain.
- Watchman Nee

Groanings that cannot be uttered are often prayers that cannot be refused.
- Charles Spurgeon

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting a prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.
- John Wesley

The end of all being is the glory of God.
- Paris Reidhead

If sinners be damned at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
- Charles Spurgeon

Oh men and women, pray through, pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until god bends the heavens and comes down.
- Reuben Archer Torrey

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.
- Gregory Nazianzen

He that is down need fear no fall, He that is low no pride.
- John Bunyan

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
- Francis Quarles

Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; high is the roof there, but the gate is low.
- Robert Herrick

This minute, too, is part of eternity.
- Duncan Stuart

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Charles Finney

God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
- Thomas a Kempis

He loseth nothing that loseth not God.
- George Herbert

As in paradise, God walks in scripture, seeking man.
- St. Ambrose

It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk through the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.
- Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1730's (on the effects of George Whitfield's preaching)

Upon a life i did not live,
Upon a death i did not die;
Another's life, another's death,
I stake my whole eternity.
- Horatius Bonar

At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ, where veil did its worst and met its match.
- John W. Wenham

Follow Him as well for the bitter cup of His passion as for the loaves.
- Jeremy Taylor


The nearer the Saviour drew to his glory, the more humility He expressed.
- Joseph Hall

Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire,
Let me not sink to be a clod,
make me thy fuel, flame of God.
- Amy Carmichael

Can we follow the Saviour far,
Who have no would or scar?
- Amy Carmichael

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
- Leonard Ravenhill

All flesh is like the grass, that withers and fades away.
- Fernando Ortega (1 Peter 1:24)

Lord, teach me what is flesh and what is spirit.
- Unknown

Death: Let losers talk: yet thou shalt die;
these arms shall crush thee.
Christian: Spare not, do thy worst.
I shall be one day better than before:
thou so much worse,
that thou shalt be no more.
- George Herbert (From 'A Dialogue-Anthem')

My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things: That I am a great sinner,and that Christ is a greatSaviour.
- Isaac Newton (on his death bed)

Only melted gold is minted.
- Smith Wigglesworth

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