Inspirational Christian Quotes

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”

“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”

“Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]”

“They were like two enemies in love with one another.”

“Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: 'Ye were bought at a price', and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.”

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

“A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.”

“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”

“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--”

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.”

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.”

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ”

“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”