Kirk Cousins Quotes

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.

If Jesus is not enough to motivate you to godly living, you don't know Jesus.

After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it taught me that faith is enough, but here's three more things left just in case. There's always things left to do to be closer to God.

There is no such thing as a continuously carnal Christian.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

There are some people who are always on the run, so much so that they find it hard to fit in the study of God's word.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

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.

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.