Inspirational Christian Quotes

“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”

“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”

“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”

“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so.. Act II scene ii”

“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes form lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility...”

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”

“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“who wishes to fight must first count the cost”