And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
—Søren Kierkegaard
“I would earnestly urge all Christian workers to be sure to get some time alone for the prayerful study of the Word. The more of such time that you can get, the better will it be both for yourself and for others.”
[Christianity] transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story…
—J. Gresham Machen
Above all, sooner forget your Christian name, than forget to eye Christ!
—John Wesley
Do nothing on which you cannot pray for a blessing. Every action of a Christian that is good, is sanctified by the word and prayer. It becomes not a Christian to do anything so trivial, that he cannot pray over it.
—John Wesley
But they put it on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house: in like manner, it is the design of God that every Christian should be in an open point of view; that he may give light to all around, that he may visibly express the religion of Jesus Christ.
—John Wesley
Persecution never did, never could, give any lasting wound to genuine Christianity.
—John Wesley
Christianity commands not the show but the reality of meekness & gentleness
—William Wilberforce
Christianity is not satisfied with producing merely the specious guise of virtue.
—William Wilberforce
Christianity teaches us not to prize human estimation at a very high rate, and thereby provides for the practice of her injunction, to love from the heart those who, justly or unjustly may have attacked our reputation, and wounded our character.
—William Wilberforce
Improving in almost every other branch of knowledge, we have become less and less acquainted with Christianity.
—William Wilberforce
In proportion as vital Christianity can be revived, in that same proportion the church establishment is strengthened
—William Wilberforce
Christianity without distinction professes an equal regard for all human beings, and was characterised by her first promulgator as the messenger of ‘glad tidings to the poor’.
—William Wilberforce
In whatever class or order of society Christianity prevails, she sets herself to rectify the particular faults, or, if we would speak more distinctly, to counteract the particular mode of selfishness, to which that class is liable.
—William Wilberforce
O let me press forward with renewed vigour, laying aside every weight, etc. and growing in heavenly mindedness and love and joy and every Christian grace.
—William Wilberforce
The wise Christian will watch for opportunities to do good, to speak the life-bringing word to sinners, to pray the rescuing prayer of intercession.
—AW Tozer
That Christian is a happy one who has found a company of true believers in whose heavenly fellowship he can live & love & labor.
— AW Tozer
The Holy Spirit is not a luxury, not something added now and again to produce a deluxe type of Christian once in a generation. No, He is for every child of God a vital necessity
—AW Tozer
Much religious work is being done these days that will not be accepted or rewarded in that great day. Superior human gifts are being mistaken for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and neither they who exercise these gifts nor the Christian public are aware of the deception.
—AW Tozer
Christianity is no less than the real, supreme work of the Triune God, in which the Father reconciles his created but fallen world through the death of his Son and re-creates it through his Spirit into the kingdom of God.
—Herman Bavinck
The Christian moral life has faith at its root, the law as its rule, and the honor of God as its goal.
—Herman Bavinck
Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its preparation, fulfillment, and consummation.
—Herman Bavinck
Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself… its preparation, fulfillment, and consummation.
—Herman Bavinck
I have asked myself many times why professing Christian believers can relegate the great missionary imperative of our Lord Jesus Christ to the sidelines of our Christian cause.
—AW Tozer
Christianity, according to its own confession, does not exist through the strength and fidelity of its confessors, but the life and will of its Mediator.
—Herman Bavinck
O what reason of thankfulness have I on account of this retirement! I find that I do not, and it seems I cannot, lead a Christian life when I am abroad, and cannot spend time in devotion, Christian conversation, and serious meditation, as I should do.
—David Brainerd
If you will be for Christ, and be His, you must embrace all pains, watchings, and laborings after holiness to the end of your days: holiness will cost a Christian abundance of labor, but this you must do, or you cannot be Christians.
—John Flavel
(2 Cor. 7:1) Here’s the work of a Christian, cleansing work, and perfecting work in the fear of God, to the end of our lives…. He that is contented with these terms is surely Christ’s as ever was any soul.
—John Flavel
A sincere Christian falls into sin and commits evil, yet he proceeds not from evil to evil as the ungodly do but makes his fall into one sin a caution to prevent another sin…. It is not so with the servants of sin. One sin leaves them much more disposed to another sin.
—John Flavel
We live in a day in which false doctrine abounds on every hand and the only Christian who is safe from being led into error is the one who studies his Bible for himself daily.
—R. A. Torrey