Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught.
In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.
Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.
It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.
I'm looking for a second reformation. The first reformation of the church 500 years ago was about beliefs. This one is going to be about behavior. The first one was about creeds. This one is going to be about deeds. It is not going to be about what does the church believe, but about what is the church doing.
We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.
There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.
I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.
If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.
Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action
I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
