“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
— C. S. Lewis“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
— C.S. Lewis“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”
— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
— Lord Byron“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
— Hans Urs von Balthasar“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”
— Peter Kreeft“Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.”
— Peter Kreeft“You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson“Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!”
— Fulton J. Sheen“Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.”
— Peter Kreeft“The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.”
— Fulton J. Sheen“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his lifeuntil he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”
— Peter Kreeft“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
— Patience Johnson“Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.”
— Clarence Jordan“God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.”
— Clarence Jordan“Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.”
— Clarence Jordan“The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.”
— Geerhardus Vos“Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.”
— Gordon H. Clark“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
— Soren A. Kierkegaard“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon“You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...”
— Bob Dylan“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”
— Fulton J. Sheen“we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. ”
— Brennan Manning“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”
— John Irving“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
— Christopher Hitchens“When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.”
— Swindoll Charles R.“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins“God is not interested in your art but, your heart.”
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha“The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.”
— Philip Pullman“Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?”
— Sam Harris“God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.”
— Rachel Held Evans“We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.”
— J.A. Konrath“To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself.”
— Anonymous“We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.”
— C.S. Lewis“I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.”
— Billy Connolly“The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.”
— Søren Kierkegaard“It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.”
— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica“Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?”
— Ron Patterson“Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea.May your name be glorified and be praised.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita“God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”
— Peter Kreeft“Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.”
— Jestoni Revealed“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin“The Lord is God. God is Holy.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita“The way we do apologetics looks different when we are motivated not by our desire to conquer the other person, but by our genuine love and compassion, and by our desire to see people discover God's lifegiving truth.”
— Preston Perry“Oh, may no earthbound cloud arise to hide thee from thy servant's eyes.”
— Leonard Ravenhill“Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going to need me.”
— Wesley Miller“At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.”
— Alistair Begg“It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.”
— Tom Patton“The more we are fed with his sacred humanity's love; the more we reflect on the example he has set us, the more will the divine life grow in us.”
— A. Carthusian“In the capable hands of God, one's worst nightmare could transform into a fantastical dream that surpasses the scope of one's wildest imagination.”
— Angela Bell