Malachi Kirby Quotes

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

I became a Christian at age 4. I turned from my wicked ways and decided to walk the straight and narrow - but seriously, I actually remember coming to the Lord then and starting my long walk with Him.

My relationship with Jesus has changed my life and, really, the foundation of who my wife and I are as people.

You didn't choose Christian music because it's more beneficial. It doesn't pay more. It doesn't make you more famous. There's some reason why you came to this. What changed your life at some point?

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

I know for myself how the fruits of the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform lives from the ordinary and dreary to the extraordinary and sublime.

I was born again. It happens to Episcopalians. Sometimes it doesn't hit you till you're 47 years old. It changed my whole life for the better... I spent a lot of time giving Christian witness all over the country to church groups and stuff.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

I became a Christian because I met God.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.