September 28, 2004
Great Christian Quotes
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.” - - G. K. ChestertonI’m a sucker for a great quote. I thought it would be interesting to ask our visitors to put up some of your favorite Christian quotes (not in Scripture). Over the years there have been some unbelievable Christian writers (such as Chesterton above) and excellent quotes. What are you favorites? Just post them as a comment.
Some of my other favorites:
“Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ.” -- St. Jerome“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.” - - Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Not 100 in the United States hate the Roman Catholic Church, but millions hate what they mistakenly think the Roman Catholic Church is.” - - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
And the best quote from the famous Patrick Henry (of “Give me liberty” fame):
“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.” - - Patrick Henry
There are million more (I don’t even have CS Lewis above). I’m looking forward to others you may have.
God bless,
Jay
PS – I can’t resist this one:
“If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.” - - Muriel Spark
;-)
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He will not have God as Father who would not be willing to have the
Church as Mother. Augustine
Hi Jay;
What a great suggestion! I've always liked this one from John Henry Cardinal Newman (who was originally Anglican):
"To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant."
God bless,
Nickie.
Here's my favorite quote from Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, C.O.
"Conscience has rights because it has duties."
Posted by: Donna Marie Lewis at September 28, 2004 02:30 PMJay,
The last cheap shot I will do on this blog, I promise . . . I just couldn't resist.
"To be deep in the Scripture is to cease to be Catholic." Me
In Christ,
Thomas
Posted by: Thomas at September 28, 2004 03:12 PMI'll assume Cardinal Newman (a former Anglican expert on history who converted) knows more about history than you, Thomas. By the way, notice that I restrained myself from including this quote by Martin Luther:
There are almost as many sects and beliefs as there are heads; this one will not admit Baptism; that one rejects the Sacrament of the altar; another places another world between the present one and the day of judgment; some teach that Jesus Christ is not God. There is not an individual, however clownish he may be, who does not claim to be inspired by the Holy Ghost, and who does not put forth as prophecies his ravings and dreams.
;-)
God bless,
Jay
Jay,
I won't get into details. I just found your site.
You are the answer I have been praying for.
Thanks be to God,
Christine
Jay,
I won't get into details. I just found your site.
You are the answer I have been praying for.
Thanks be to God,
Christine
Jay,
I won't get into details. I just found your site.
You are the answer I have been praying for.
Thanks be to God,
Christine
Jay,
I won't get into details. I just found your site.
You are the answer I have been praying for.
Thanks be to God,
Christine
Jay,
How about this one?
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."
Jim Elliot (Protestant) missionary, who gave his life in the service of Christ.
In Christ,
Thomas
Posted by: Thomas at September 28, 2004 06:34 PM"I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori
"Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow." ~ St. Augustine
“This Jesus of Nazareth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mohammed and Napoleon; without science and learning he shed more light on matters human and Divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of schools, he spoke much words of life as were never spoken before or since the produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, he set more pens in motion, furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions…than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times.” ~ Philip Schaff, Swiss-born U.S. biblical scholar, 1858
And for all the people who think we shouldn't mix politics and religion...
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.” ~ President George Washington
If you want to post a quote that you feel may inspire someone...that is good. But if your motives are derived from your flesh and go to serve the purpose of your ego and pride, think twice.
God Blessed
PS- That was for my protestant and catholic brothers and sisters
Posted by: Marc at September 29, 2004 12:51 PM"Preach the word
of God wherever you go, even use words, if necessary" - Saint Francis of Assisi
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
-- Peter Kreeft
Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
-- George MacDonald
A god who lets us prove his existence would be an idol.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prosperity knits a man to the world.
-- C.S. Lewis
Remember my friend, love is not measured by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
-- Wizard of Oz to the Tin Man
In the evening of our life, we shall be judged by love, namely, by the sincerity of our love for God, for our neighbor, for our soul.
-- St. John of the Cross
Dance like no one is watching... just kidding!
Paraphrasing Kreeft: We do not do good works to get into heaven, we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
Posted by: fidens at October 1, 2004 09:03 AMTrust Him when dark doubts assail thee,
Trust Him when thy strength is small,
Trust Him when to simply trust Him
Seems the hardest thing of all.
Trust Him, He is ever faithful,
Trust Him, for his will is best,
Trust Him, for the heart of Jesus
Is the only place I can rest.
God bless
«†»JENN¥«†»
Koi to seki to wa kakusarenu
( Love conquers all.)
I have enjoyed your site. Here is my small contribution. I often take solace in the writings of Thomas Merton. In particular the following passage from "No Man is an Island":
The Christian must not only accept suffering: he must make it holy. Nothing so easily becomes unholy as suffering.
Merely accepted, suffering does nothing for our souls except, perhaps, to harden them. Endurance alone is no consecration. True asceticism is not a mere cult of fortitude. We can deny ourselves rigorously for the wrong reason and end up by pleasing ourselves mightily with our self-denial.
Suffering is consecrated to God by faith - not by faith in suffering, but by faith in God. Some of us believe in the power and the value of suffering. But such a belief is an illusion. Suffering has no power and no value of its own.
It is valuable only as a test of faith. What if our faith fails the test? Is it good to suffer, then? What if we enter into suffering with a strong faith in suffering, and then discover that suffering destroys us?
To believe in suffering is pride: but to suffer, believing in God, is humility. For pride may tell us that we are strong enough to suffer, that suffering is good for us because we are good. Humility tells us that suffering is an evil which we must always expect to find in our lives because of the evil that is in ourselves. But faith also knows that the mercy of God is given to those who seek him in suffering, and that by his grace we can overcome evil with good. Suffering, then, becomes good by accident, by the good that it enables us to receive more abundantly from the mercy of God. It does not make us good by itself, but it enables us to make ourselves better than we are. Thus, what we consecrate to God in suffering is not our suffering but our selves.
Only the sufferings of Christ are valuable in the sight of God, who hates evil, and to him they are valuable chiefly as a sign. The death of Jesus on the cross has an infinite meaning and value not because it is a death, but because it is the death of the Son of God. The cross of Christ says nothing of the power of suffering or of death. It speaks only of the power of him who overcame both suffering and death by rising from the grave.
Posted by: Marzio Apolloni at March 16, 2005 10:37 AMhope this will touch someone,
If you want a new blessing, give God a new praise.
~Mike Clevenger~
Posted by: MIke Clevenger at May 13, 2005 08:38 PM"The soul which desires more grace need only trust God more" (highly inexact quote from Sister Faustina - if someone can find the exact quote I would much appreciate it)
Posted by: Broken Record at May 16, 2005 12:29 PMBenedizione di San Francesco
Il Signore ti benedica e ti custodisca.
Ti mostri la sua faccia
e abbia misericordia di te.
Volga a te il Suo sguardo
e ti dia pace.
Il Signore ti benedica
Pax et Bonum
You are anointed and appointed with an unction to function in a dysfunctional world.Jesus is Lord and the devil is a fraud.
Posted by: Herman Snell at March 24, 2006 03:44 AM"Do small things with great love"
--Mother Teresa
“Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.”
--Jurgen Moltmann, THEOLOGY OF HOPE
"To become Catholic is not to leave off thinking, but to learn how to think"
G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936 in "Conversion and the Catholic Church" (1929)
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
Posted by: when we were one at March 27, 2006 02:36 PM"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought"
--John Paul II
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa
