Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God has been unbelievably good to you, be an expert in that. Matt Chandler
God let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am. David Brainerd
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of the dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo, we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world. Jacques Ellul
God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them. John Piper
God is a far better Savior than I am a sinner. Aaron Brockett
The true gospel comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable. Tim Keller
Stop asking; how close can I get to sin without actually sinning? Start asking; how can I glorify God in everything I do? Andy Stanley
Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give. Dave Ramsey
Three essential prayers: Help! Thanks! Wow! Anne Lamott
Jesus didn’t go to the cross just to get you into heaven. Jesus went to a cross to get more of his character into you. Aaron Brockett
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more like Christ it resolves a great deal of anxiety. AW Tozer
James 1:22: don’t just hear this stuff, do what it says.
God never wastes a pain.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. GK Chesterton
Let God have your life, He can do more with it than you can. DL Moody
The most important thing in life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity. Dallas Willard
God, today, would you do something to show off, to remind me that you are in control. And would you help give me the eyes and ears to see it? Ray Hilbert
Find the things that stir your affections for Jesus and saturate your life with them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That’s the Christian life as easy as I can explain it to you. Matt Chandler
Christians should see their own sin as a plank and other’s sin as a speck.
Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue. Andy Stanley
In our evangelistic efforts to make the good news accessible and simple to understand, we seem to have boiled it down to a kind of “fire insurance” that one can buy. Then, once the policy is in effect, the sinner can go back to whatever life he was living—of wealth and success, or of poverty and suffering. As long as the policy is in the drawer, the other things don’t matter as much. We’ve got our “ticket” to the next life. There is a real problem with this limited view of the kingdom of God: it is not the whole gospel. Focusing almost exclusively on the afterlife reduces the importance of what God expects in this life. Richard Stearns
Oh, how many lives are wasted by people who believe that the Christian life means avoiding badness and providing for the family. John Piper
If each spouse says to the other, “I will treat my selfishness as the main problem in the marriage”, you have the prospect for great things. Tim Keller
Holiness is not just what we get rid of in our lives, it’s what we chase after. Kyle idleman
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. Jim Elliot
The way we love each other is the best evidence that Jesus is still alive. Bob Goff
The world has yet to see what God can do with one man who is fully consecrated to Him. I aim to be that man. DL Moody
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. AW Tozer
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. Jim Elliot
A Pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself. AW Tozer
I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will access my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched. Clayton Christiansen
God is passionate about transforming our character, not preserving our comfort. Eric Geiger
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell. CT Studd
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the enemy to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. Donald Miller
God is calling a church of comfortable people into lives of risk and adventure. Francis Chan
Make that which is temporary become servant to that which is eternal. John Ortberg
God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love. Francis Chan
Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing it. Tim Keller
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing God wants to be glorified. The whole thing is His. His movie, His world, His gift. Francis Chan
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning. Francis Chan
God’s main business is the character forming business, not the circumstance shaping business. John Ortberg
The real joy of our walk with Christ comes when we begin to press against the edge of our comfort zone. Bill Nix
The more you make your life about you, the more miserable of a human being you’re going to be. Matt Chandler
The evidence of our love for God is not our “rightness” in beliefs or theology. The evidence is in our love for others.
When Christ calls a man, he bids him to come and die. Bonhoeffer
Lord, I grant you full permission to rearrange my life for your purposes.
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Most of us Christians are educated far beyond our obedience. Pete Wilson
Your greatest ministry will likely come from your deepest pain. Rick Warren
Hard words make soft hearts. PD
God, help my desires to become increasingly aligned with your desires.
Give life! In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange. Brennan Manning
The human heart is a perpetual factory of idols. John Calvin
If you read history, you will find out that the Christians who did the most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next world. CS Lewis
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life. John Ortberg
Life is not a problem to be solved it’s an adventure to be lived. John Elderidge
No amount of success at work can make up for failure at home.
Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. John Ortberg
Many Christians get irate when other Christians sin differently than they do. Philip Yancey
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change. Andy Stanley
Jesus promised his disciples three things; that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble. GK Chesterton
Would I rather live a life of ease and comfort and remain immature in Christ, or am I willing to be seasoned with suffering if by doing so I am conformed to the image of Christ? Gary Thomas
Children will invariably talk, eat, walk, think, respond and act like their parents. Give them a target to shoot at. Give them a goal to work toward. Give them a pattern that they can see clearly, and you give them something that gold and silver cannot buy. Billy Graham
When God wants to change the world, He doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the meek. NT Wright
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around. John Ortberg
We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin. Tim Keller