52 Favorite Christian Quotes From Influential Christians
Today I'm sharing some of my favorite Christian quotes with you. These are all from influential Christians from ancient times through today. Some are inspiring, some are convicting... all are worth reading and considering.In the comment section, I would love for you to share some of your favorite Christian quotes. 
Christian Quotes About Faith
Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.― C. S. Lewis
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.― Mother Teresa
I've discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weaknesses. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need Him.― Jim Cymbala
I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.―
God is not aloof. He says continually through the centuries, "I'll help you, I really will. When you're ready to throw up your hands, throw them up to Me.― Jim Cymbala
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.— Martin Luther King, Jr.
But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.― F
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.―
The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.— R.C. Sproul
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.― Oswald Chambers
See also: How to Live When Life Wrecks Your Expectations
Christian Quotes About God's Will
God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.— Elisabeth Elliot
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.―
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.— Elisabeth Elliot
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.―
See also: 44 Bible Verses for Healing and Why God Calls Himself Jehovah-Rapha
Christian Quotes About the Church
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.― Abigail VanBuren
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.— Paul David Tripp
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months.— A.W. Tozer
See also: 6 Signs You Might Be A Pharisee & What You Should Do About It
Christian Quotes About Sin
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.―
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.―
When we think too lightly of sin, we think too lightly of the Savior.― Charles Spurgeon
Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.―Charles Spurgeon
We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.―
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Christian Quotes About Happiness
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.―
Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.― Augustine of Hippo
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.― John Piper
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 is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.—C.S. Lewis
We are surrounded by relationships, but driven by accomplishment. God is the opposite. Though surrounded by His accomplishments, He has given Himself in relationship. Though not in need of interaction, He has chosen to pursue it. For God, relationship is the goal.—Victoria Brooks
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Christian Quotes About Forgiveness
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.―
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.— Jerry Bridges
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.— Tim Keller
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.— J. C. Ryle
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Christian Quotes About Worship
You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.— Augustine of Hippo
I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.— A.W. Tozer
See also: 9 Reasons You Need the Church
Christian Quotes About The Bible
You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.—John MacArthur
I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.— Billy Graham
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.— Augustine of Hippo
Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.— Francis Chan
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Christian Quotes About Prayer
Prayer fills man's emptiness with God's fullness.— E. M. Bounds
The key is praying according to God's will. To know His will we must know His thoughts. To know His thoughts we must saturate our minds with His word. Then we will begin to experience the authority of God in our prayers.— Charles Henley
Not only does God command us to pray, He permits us to pray. Prayer is both a must and a may, an obligation and a gift.— Ben Patterson
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. It is not the only thing, but it is the chief thing.— S. D. Gordon
I had rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.— D. L. Moody
There is nothing that makes us love someone so much as praying for them.— William Law
God's will is exactly what you would desire if you knew all the facts.— Bill Thrasher
See also: How to Hear God's Voice Today- 6 Practical Tips
Christian Quotes About Tough Times
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.— Timothy J. Keller
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.―
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'— Billy Graham
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.― John Piper
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