Quotes

[onlymystory]

I find a lot of random quotes to be uplifting or meaningful at times. I thought it might be fun to have a thread for ones specific to Christianity.

When we confess our sins, God casts them into the deepest ocean, gone forever. And even though I cannot find a scripture for it, I believe God then places a sign out there that says, "NO FISHING ALLOWED."
Corrie Ten Boom

[DeplorableWord]

Good quote and thread onlymystory! How about this one:

"If I find in myself, desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, then the only logical explanation is that I was made for a different world." ~C.S. Lewis.

Or,

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~Albert Enstein.

[glamel]

heres one:

Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary causes in their proper place. -- John Calvin

[onlymystory]

thanks. I have a bunch of these but I figured I'd go slowly so others can post.

No literature is more realistic and honest in facing the harsh facts of life than the Bible. At no time is there the faintest suggestion that the life of faith exempts us from difficulties. What it promises is preservation from all the evil in them...All the water in all the oceans cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside. Nor can all the trouble in the world harm us unless it gets within us. That is the promise of Psalm 121: The Lord will keep you from all evil.
Eugene Peterson


There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness.

[glamel]

yeah, i got a lot of quotes about it too, here's another one,:)

If the true revelation of God is in Christ, the Bible is not properly a revelation, but the History of a Revelation. This is not only a Fact but a necessity, for a Person cannot be revealed in a Book, but must find revelation, if at all, in a Person.
... Phillips Brooks, The Law of Growth

[onlymystory]

oooh, I like that one.

[purplemonkeyhunter]

Here are two of my favs.

"These things - the beauty, the momory of our own past - are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the things itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the heards of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them. And you and I hav eneed of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has been laid upon us..." - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what it is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

[PrinceOfTheWest]

Hey, PMH - good to see you around again. Gone for a bit, eh? How are you doing?

[uknowuluvme]

do they have to be religious cuz their is a website called fire hot quotes were their are a bunch <3

[onlymystory]

this thread i wanted just for religious ones. thats why I put it in the christianity section. but i'm sure you can start a different thread for any quote in the lamppost section.

[onlymystory]

ok, here's another one. this one is actually a shortened version of the whole thing.

I stand by the door. I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out. The door is the most important door in the world. It is the door through which men walk when they find God. There is no use my going inside and staying there, when so many are still outside and they as much as I, crave to know where the door is. And all that so many ever find is only the wall where the door ought to be. They creep along the wall like blind men, with outstretched, groping hands. Feeling for a door, knowing there must be a door, yet they never find it. So I stand by the door. The most tremendous thing in the world is for men to find that door--the door to God.


We are ordinary people, with an extraordinary God.

[Gibby]

What a fun thread! Here's one; I have always thought this quote was right on the money:


"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne & I myself have founded empires, but upon what do these creations of our genius depend?--Upon force! Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, & to this very day millions would die for Him."

- Napolean Bonaparte

[onlymystory]

Pulling from Lewis himself;

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants of the world have been, how gloriously different the saints!

[purplemonkeyhunter]

Hey, PMH - good to see you around again. Gone for a bit, eh? How are you doing?
I'm doing great, how about yourself?

[onlymystory]

I feel this thread needs a bit of revival.

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away? ~ CS Lewis

Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. ~CS Lewis

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. ~GK Chesterton

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. ~Madeleine L'engle

One of my favorites: A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ~CS Lewis

[EveningStar]

You do not have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.

-- C.S. Lewis

[Lucy the Marshwiggle]

Nice thread, onlymystory!

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else"-C.S. Lewis

^One of my favorite quotes by C.S. Lewis. :)

[Josh the Jester]

This quote is oh so true by a phenomenal pastor named Paul Washer. Check hm out when you get a chance.

Not all Christians are called to be evagelists, but all are called to evangelize--Paul Wassher

[Copperfox]

An approximate quote from G.K. Chesterton:

"The reason why I have difficulty answering when people ask me what convinces me that Christianity is true, is because _everything_ convinces me that Christianity is true."

[Dernhelm]

"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."

-- John Calvin

[Glenburne]

"We don't have many Christians who are courageous. Now, we do have Christians who are mouthy." --Dr. Jim Berg