Quotes From Classic Christians

Quotes From Classic Christians

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."

"Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness."

"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language"

"I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God."

"Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this.
Others say they would be better off in church.
If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are.
Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere - in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church.
If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you.
God is not distracted by a multitude of things.
Nor can we be."

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul."

~Meister Eckhart~
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"The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery."

"If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world."

"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labor faithfully for Him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."

"Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on Him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace."

"We are a long time learning that all our strength and salvation is in God."

"Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose."

~David Brainerd~

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"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling."

"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

~St. Augustine~
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"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."

"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old."

"I have held may things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

"Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart."

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell,unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked for."

~Martin Luther~