Inspirational Christian Quotes

“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”

“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”

“It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates”

“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”

“I desired dragons with a profound desire.”

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.”

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”

“This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.”

“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”

“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.”

“Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.”

“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”

“To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.”

“If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.”

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”