92 Great Christian Quotes

92 Great Christian Quaotes by Charles Spurgeon and Others

Over the years I’ve collected great Christian quotes from across the Internet. I love to read the thoughts of my Christian brothers and sisters who have come before me. I draw inspiration from them. I’m convicted by them. I’m drawn closer to the Lord through them.

Quotes from Christians can be used to emphasize a sermon point. They can inspire your congregations. Other Christians can say the hard things you may not be able to say. For the pastor, quotes are a goldmine.

Several years ago I shared a new quote on Twitter every day for several months. Below you will find my collection I accumulated over those months.

Take some time to read them. You might find you can slip them into your sermons. I hope you enjoy the voices of the great Christian quotes.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. – Francis of Assisi

The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor – Charles Stanley

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them. – George Muller

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. – George Whitefield

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking. – D.L. Moody

I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans. -John Wesley

Preach the gospel to yourself every day. – Jerry Bridges

Jesus’ mission is not to make converts, and it never has been. His mission is to make disciples. – Jim Putnam

We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us. – Francis Chan

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. – John Wesley

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin. – John Bunyan

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. – Charles Spurgeon

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. – Martin Luther

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching. – A.T. Robertson

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.-Oswald J. Smith

We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. – Oswald J. Smith

If you’re walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.-A.A. Allen

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. – Leonard Ravenhill

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. – John Wesley

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. – Hudson Taylor

The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself. – C.H. Mackintosh

The Christian life is not slightly better, but completely different. – Clarence Sexton

Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache. -J. Vernon McGee

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace. – Thomas Watson

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the Word. – Martin Luther

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust. – Hudson Taylor

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. – Jim Elliot

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. – Elisabeth Elliot

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading. – Oswald Chambers

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – St. Augustine

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me. – Donald Miller

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible. – N.T. Wright

The world needs Christians who don’t tolerate the complacency of their own lives. – Francis Chan

Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven. – J.C. Ryle

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all. – David Brainerd

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. – Jonathan Edwards

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. – Corrie ten Boom

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to His character have we become? – Elyse Fitzpatrick

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness. – Martin Luther

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. – Charles Spurgeon

Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers… Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers. – Scott McKnight

To judge a person’s heart is only to expose what’s in your own. – Frank Viola

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. – Oswald Chambers

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. – John Stott

To add value to others, one must first value others. – John Maxwell

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. – Charles Swindoll

The lukewarm do not embrace the cross; they merely drag it along. – St. Teresa of Avila

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way. – Thomas Aquinas

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength. – Adam Young

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.- C.S. Lewis

God calls us to go against the grain when the grain is going against God. Be IN the world, not OF the world. – Tony Evans

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. – Martin Luther

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know. – D.L. Moody

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. – Henry Ward Beecher

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. – G.K. Chesterton

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don’t even like the word. – Charles Stanley

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. – Billy Sunday

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness. – Jonathan Edwards

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him. – A.W. Tozer

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness. – A.W. Pink

We are not here to be overcome, but to rise unvanquished after every knockout blow, and laugh the laugh of faith, not fear. – Amy Carmichael

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church…two things are intolerable to Him – insincerity and lukewarmness. – E.M. Bounds

The Bible is shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim. – St. Augustine

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. – Phillips Brooks

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. – C.T. Studd

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn.’ – C.S. Lewis

You need not to know much about Heaven – it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us. – Charles Spurgeon

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis

Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. – St. Augustine

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows. – Thomas Watson

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one’s own eyes. – Thomas Watson

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord. – Walter Cradock

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. – A.W. Pink

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step. – Thomas a’ Kempis

He became what we are that He might make us what He is. – St. Athanasius

The tragedy of life…is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that knowing Him they still insist on going their own way. – William Barclay

For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. – Alfred Edersheim

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are. – Henry Ward Beecher

Christians ought not to slander God by looking as if they were at an everlasting funeral. – Henry Ward Beecher

Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. – Randy Alcorn

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. – George MacDonald

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. – Mother Teresa

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. – Timothy Keller

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Thomas Aquinas

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. – Corrie Ten Boom

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you. – J.I. Packer

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. – Leonard Ravenhill

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy. – D.L. Moody

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. – Oswald Chambers

92 Great Christian Quotes

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