Inspirational Christian Quotes

“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”

“The rest, is silence.”

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

“I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.”

“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.”

“Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.”

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”

“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”

“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.”

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.”

“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”

“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”

“Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.”

“But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”

“And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”