Christian Maxims
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A Christianity that costs nothing, is worth nothing.
If you do not enjoy what you have now, how can you be happier with more?
A Christian isn't a person who has received a new start in life. A
Christian is a person who has received a new life to start with.
You must be melted, before you can be molded.
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart, until it is burning
within your own.
Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they
would be completely fearless, wonderfully happy, and in constant trouble.
Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their
unworthiness to be employed.
If your Christianity is comfortable, it is compromised.
To pay the price of obedience, is to escape the cost of disobedience.
Committment is a relationship with Christ that enables you in the
midst of lifes greatest comforts, to be willing to die, and in the
midst of lifes greatest trials, to be willing to live.
He who lives for God's honor and glory seeks neither praise nor
reward. But in the end he is certain of both.
Most people do not want to know the will of God in order to do it.
They want to know it in order to consider it.
99% of knowing God's will is being prepared to do it before you know what it is.
Ease is never good for the people of God.
The life rooted in God cannot be uprooted.
Do not grumble because you don't have what you want, rather, be
exceedingly grateful that you don't get what you deserve.
To praise God for our miseries ends them. To praise God for our blessings extends them.
The bible is not only the worlds best seller, it is also man's best purchase.
There is a vast difference between the men that make books and the
book that makes men.
True courage is like a kite, a contrary wind raises it higher.
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link
except that it is missing.
The probability of life originating by accident is comparable to
the probability of the complete dictionary resulting from an explosion
in a printing factory.
A person becomes wise by observing what happens when he isn't.
Experience is the best teacher and considering what it cost us, it should be.
The man who knows how will always find a place in life, but the
man who knows why will likely be his boss.
Wisdom is the art of knowing what to fight for, and what to simply
overlook.
A man who has made a mistake and does not correct it is making
a greater mistake. Plato
He who has no fire in himself cannot warm others.
A Christian either makes the world better, or the world makes him worse.
The bible keeps you from sin, and sin keeps you from the bible.
When the Lord does not have priority one in your life, He has no priority.
Give your life to God. He can do more with it than you can.
If God has called you, don't spend time looking over your
shoulder to see who is following.
Were it not for sin, death would have never had a beginning. And
were it not for death, sin would have never had an ending.
Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
Christ must be Lord of all or else He is not Lord at all.
I may not be what I should be, but by the grace of God I am not what I used to be.
Avoid following the crowd. Be unpopular when necessary.
God created the world out of nothing. And as long as we are
nothing He can make something out of us./Martin Luther
Don't make the mistake of letting yesterday use up to much of today.
The bible is the only book in which the author is always present.
We don't need more strength or more ability or greater
opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.
Truth is always strong no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood
is always weak no matter how strong it looks.
The price of growth is always less than the cost of stagnation.
Success is going from one failure to another failure, without
losing your enthusiasm./Winston Churchill
Satisfaction in life arises in knowing you are where you
belong./Joni Eareckson Tada
You have no control over which way the wind blows, but you can adjust your sails.
Don't sweat the small stuff; and it's all small stuff!
It's not what happens to us that counts, but what happens inside
us that really matters.
The unexamined life is not worth living./Socrates
Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for
the sake of truth is a divine command./Walter Martin
It is not my love for Christ that controls me. It is Christ's
love for me that controls me.
Christ came to pay a debt that He did not owe, because we owed a
debt that we could not pay.
I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
Many people believe in you. Just make sure you are one of them./Marodet
Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to
it./Chuck Swindoll
Come work for the Lord. The work is hard, the hours are long, and the
pay is low. But the retirement benefits are out of this world.
Christians are like tea bags. You have to put them in hot water
to see how strong they are.
If you don't like the way you were born, try being born again.
If you cannot find happiness along the way, you will not
find it at the end of the road.
The problem with the average Christian, is that he is an average Christian.
What we see as adversity, God sees as opportunity.
God doesn't call those who are equipped. God equips those whom He calls.
The best time of the day is "now."
It is not our ability that God desires, it is our availability.
When Jesus called me into His Army, I had nothing. And if I end
up with nothing, I will still break even.
JUSTICE is when you get what you deserve. MERCY is when you
don't get what you deserve. GRACE is when you get what you don't deserve.
Do unto others as if you were the others.
Where God leads-God feeds. Where God guides-God provides.
Without hope, you have no dream. Without a dream, you have
no tomorrow. Without a tomorrow, you do not exist.
If God has brought you to it, God will bring you through it.
I don't understand the situation, but I understand God.
SMILE! It adds to your face value!
The best helping hand you will ever find is at the end of your own arm.
He who angers you, controls you.
There is always free food on a fishhook.
It is more valuable to seek God's presence than it is to seek God's presents.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented
with what he would like to have./Socrates
Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who overcomes
his enemies./Aristotle
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because
they have to say something./Plato
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender./Vince Lombardi
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is
everywhere the same, because it comes from God./Voltaire
A rich person is not one that has the most, but one who needs the least.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out
and remove all doubt./Abe Lincoln
There is no high, like The Most High.
Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Don't count the days; make the days count.
Make sure what you're living for, is worth dying for.
Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.
A person who kneels before God, can stand before anything.
You may be one person in the world, but you may also be the world to
one person.
If you don't have a reason to die, you don't have a reason to live.
I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun; Not only because I
see it, but because by it I see everything else./C.S.Lewis
Make failure, your teacher; not your undertaker.
Safety is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of God.
We want God to change our circumstances, but God wants to use our
circumstances to change us.
Christians are supposed to be the light of the world, but you can't
be a light if you're not plugged in.
You need both blessings and difficulties, because one without the other is neither.
When you forgive, the debt doesn't just go away. You absorb the debt. That's why forgiveness is so hard.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty./Wiinston Churchill
To suffer passes, to have suffered never passes.
The real issue is not why is there evil. The real issue is how could a Holy
God crush His own Son, who was without sin, to forgive the evil in my heart?
We like to talk about having the faith to be healed. What about the faith
to be sick?/Mike Mason
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment, and tribulation, for only one
reason. These things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of
God./Oswald Chambers
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more
contentment in God, and less satisfaction in the world."/John Piper
He who has God, has everything. He who has everything but God, has
nothing./Augustine
There was God and a scientist. God asked the scientist, "so you can make
anything I can?" Scientist said, "yes I can." God said, "ok go ahead."
The scientist went to grab up some dirt from the ground. God said, "wait
a minute, get your own dirt!"
In prison Joseph lay innocent between 2 criminals. Jesus likewise
lay on the cross between 2 theives. Joseph foretells the salvation of
one and the death of the other. On the cross Jesus saves the one
repentant criminal and condemns the reprobate for the same crime. But
whereas Joseph only prophesies, Jesus acts. Joseph asks the man who
will be saved to remember him when he is elevated. But Jesus saves
the man who asks that he be remembered when Jesus comes into His
kingdom./Blaise Pascal
And Jesus was lifted up upon a tree, and an inscription was
attached indicating who was being killed. Who was it? It is a grievous
thing to tell, but a most fearful thing to refrain from telling. But
listen, as you tremble before Him on whose account the earth trembled!
He who hung the earth in place is hanged. He who fixed the heavens in
place is fixed in place. He who made all things fast is made fast on
a tree. The Sovereign is insulted. God is murdered. The King of
Israel is destroyed by an Israelite hand.
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