Christian Quotes

The Bible and other works from Christian writers and speakers provide the Christian world with a variety of inspirational quotes about life according to Christ. The following collection of quotes refers to Christianity and applies not only to Christians, but anyone wishing to discover elements of the Christian faith and life.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:3

“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Matthew 5:44

“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them” Matthew 18:20

“Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” Matthew 22:21

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people” Luke 1:68

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Luke 2:14

“Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit” Luke 23:46

“God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.” John 8:7

“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet he will live.” John 11:25

“Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself” Romans 2:1

“Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.” I Peter 4:8

“If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.” Michelangelo

“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness” –Shakespeare

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words that words without a heart.” John Bunyan

“What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.” John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties” Charlotte Bronte

“I pray God to keep me from being proud.” Samuel Pepys

“God enters by a private door into every individual.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-beam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Measure not men by Sundays without regarding that they do all the week after.” Thomas Fuller

“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” Carl Sandburg

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness” William Blake

“Too low they build who build beneath the stars.” Edward Young

“Oh! for a closer walk with God.” William Cowper

“No affliction would ever trouble a child of God, if he knew God’s reasons for sending it.” Morgan

“In the cross of Christ we glory, because we regard it as a matchless exhibition of the attributes of God.” Spurgeon

“Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.” Martin Luther

“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad, will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross” Goethe

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.” George MacDonald

“Immortality is the glorious discovering of Christianity.” Channing

“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” Martin Luther

“My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.” Robert Browning

”By many hands the work of God is done.” Richard Le Gallienne

“Let thy prayer be against the malice of thine enemy, that it may die and he may live.” –St. Augustine

“The Christian ethics of justice are deeply affected by the supremacy of love.” W.B. Pope

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?” Abraham Lincoln

”The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.” Billy Graham

“I gave in and admitted that God was God.” C.S. Lewis

“Our deeds are seeds of fate, sown here on earth, but bringing forth their harvest in eternity.” Boardman

“Do right and God’s recompense to you will be the power of doing more right.” F.W. Robertson

“God wills us free, man wills us slaves,
I will as God wills, God’s will be done.” Daniel Bliss

“A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness” Jonathan Edwards

“Faith is God’s work within us.” Saint Thomas Aquinas

“Love not Pleasure; love God.” Thomas Carlyle

“God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite. Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.” Mary Baker Eddy

“In the faces of men and women I see God” –Walt Whitman

“It’s only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.” Henry David Thoreau

“I would rather walk with in the dark than go alone in the light.” Mary Gardiner Brainard

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the light that reflects it.” Edith Wharton

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens, nature and God.” Anne Frank