40+ of the Best Christian Quotes

I’ve gathered over 40 of the best Christian quotes below. Some of these quotes are convicting, and some are encouraging.

Regardless of the season of life you’re in, you will find comfort and inspiration from these fellow Christian brothers and sisters.

Christian Quotes About Faith

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

Garth Brooks

“I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.'”

Billy Graham

“Faith is believing BEFORE what will only make sense AFTER.”

Steven Furtick

“One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.”

Luis Palau

“If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. In all conditions, we can choose the right with the guidance of the Spirit. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ to shape and guide our lives if we choose it.”

Henry B. Eyring

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“It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.”

Billy Graham

“Faith is the measure to which we believe God is God. And faith is the measure to which we let God be God.”

Jennie Allen

Power of Prayer Christian Quotes

“Prayer is the portal that brings the power of heaven down to earth. It is kryptonite to the enemy and to all his ploys against you.”

Priscilla Shirer

“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”           

Mother Teresa

“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”

Rick Warren

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”

Corrie Ten Boom

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“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

Saint Teresa of Avila

“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don’t want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of ‘good time’ is seldom in sync with ours.”

Oswald Chambers

Quotes about God Being in Control

“I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know who holds my future.”

Lee Strobel

“Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend… The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear — because peace and fear are both contagious.”

John Ortberg

“Life in real time is messy. The fingerprints of God are often invisible until you look at them in the rearview mirror.”

Levi Lusko

“Nothing about my birth – or yours – was random or accidental. I was born for this time – and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.”

Christine Caine

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“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”

Max Lucado

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

Joni Eareckson Tad

“People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.”

Pearl Bailey

“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.”

Mary Manin Morrissey

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

David Brainerd

 “As many have learned and later taught, you don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.”

Tim Keller

“God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.”

Tony Evans

“Anything under God’s control is never out of control.”

Charles Swindoll

“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”

Francis Chan

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The Best Christian Quotes on How to Live

“What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down — that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.” 

Josh McDowell

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” 

C.S. Lewis

“We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.” 

Stormie Omartian

“It’s always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.” 

Randy Alcorn

“But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.” 

Francis Chan

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” 

C.S. Lewis

“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” 

Anne Lamott

“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” 

Hans Urs von Balthasar

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” 

C.S. Lewis

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” 

Corrie ten Boom

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.” 

Francine Rivers

“My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.”

Brennan Manning

“You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.”

John MacArthur

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

Chuck Swindoll

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.” 

Lisa Wingate

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” 

Garrison Keillor

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” 

Alexander Pope

“God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we’ve messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.” 

Lysa TerKeurst

“We’re going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.” 

Beth Moore