Inspirational Christian Quotes

“Certainly, other people can pray for you, they can believe for you, they can quote the scripture to you, but you must exercise faith for yourself. If you are always depending on somebody else to keep you happy, somebody else to encourage you or to get you out of trouble, you will live in perpetual weakness and disappointment. You must make a decision that you are going to be a believer. Take charge of your life and decide, “No matter what comes against me, I believe in God. I’m going to have a positive outlook for my life! Other people’s faith can indeed bolster yours. But your own faith will bring you a miracle much faster than anybody else’s. What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.”

“I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!”

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”

“Always winter but never Christmas.”

“Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.”

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

“He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”

“(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles.”

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”

“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”

“If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.”

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

“When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”

“Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.”

“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu”

“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”