Inspirational Christian Quotes

“Love is a decision - not an emotion!”

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 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?”

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.”

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”

“What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”

“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”

“Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.”

“True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.”

“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”

“Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.”

“There is no gain without struggle.”

“Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.”

“Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.”

“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...”

“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.”

“Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.”

“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”

“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”

“...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”

“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”