Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

If you know Christ, you don't need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there- whether you "feel" His presence or not. Don't confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.

Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.