64 Powerful Christian Quotes.

It’s amazing how sometimes just a single sentence can instantly pierce your heart. These powerful Christian quotes below have each left an imprint on my own heart and are certainly worth sharing. I hope that each of them is an encouragement to you and causes you to draw closer to your Savior as you think upon His goodness and grace.

In our busy, fast-paced, distracted world it can be difficult to remember to take time to simply be still (Psalm 46:10) and listen (John 10:27-28). I pray that these powerful Christian quotes will cause you to do both- and then prompt you to turn your thoughts toward eternity.

Although, in some circumstances, it may be true that actions speak louder than words, it’s equally true that the words we speak (both positive and negative) can have a powerful impact on the listener. The words of each of these men and women below offer tiny nuggets of wisdom pointing us directly back to our Creator.

What Are Some Good Christian Quotes?

There are so many thought provoking quotes out there that it was hard for me to narrow it down to only 64! Below are ten of my favorites, followed by a breakdown of additional great Christian quotes by topic.

1. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
2. “Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.” – Richard Sibbes
3. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
4. “I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.” – George MacDonald
5. “Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.” – Francis Chan
6. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis
7. “Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing. Whatever that is just do the next thing. God will meet you there.” – Elisabeth Elliot
8. “Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.” – Charles Spurgeon
9. “Consider how precious a soul must be when both God and the devil are after it.” – Charles Spurgeon
10.  “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” – St. Augustine

Inspirational Christian Quotes

These inspirational Christian quotes are from some of my favorite missionaries and authors. Many of these believers endured numerous trials and hardships throughout their lifetime and yet remained ever faithful to their Savior throughout it all. 

Their testimonies of God’s goodness are a wonderful example and reminder for us to praise God during the joyous moments as well as in our seasons of darkness.

• “One of the reasons God saved you is that you might bear fruit in this world. You are living in a hungry world where people are starving for spiritual reality.” – Andrew Murray
• “We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying ‘I wish I had your God.’” – Francis Chan
• “Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.”- Elisabeth Elliot
• “God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Leave it all in the hands that were wounded for you.” – Elisabeth Elliot
• “It is a safe thing to trust him to fulfill the desires which he creates.” – Amy Charmichael
• “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” – John Piper
• “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”- Amy Carmichael
• “Two works of mercy set a man free: forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.” – St. Augustine
• “On what basis can a righteous God justify the ungodly? It is entirely and all of grace.” – Allistar Begg
• “Ah! What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but his hold of you!” – Charles Spurgeon
• “Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.” – Randy Alcorn
• “While it looks like things are out of control, behind the scenes there is a God who hasn’t surrendered his authority.” – A.W. Tozer
• “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” -Charles Spurgeon
• “A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” – Max Lucado
• “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
• “The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.” – John MacArthur

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Christian Inspirational Quotes For Difficult Times

Whether you are in a season of joy or a season of uncertainty and hardship please know that God sees you and can use it all to shape and mold your faith and character for your good and His glory. Remember His faithfulness and keep trusting Him, Friend. These Christian inspirational quotes are powerful reminders that He will never forsake us, and offer some encouragement amidst life’s trials.

• “Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.” – Amy Carmichael
• “God uses valleys to mold our character.” – Lee Stroble
• “I do not always feel His presence, but God’s promises do not depend upon my feelings, they rest upon His integrity.” – R.C. Sproul
• “When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.” – Charles Spurgeon
• “The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.” – Paul Washer
• “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.” – Elisabeth Elliot
• “God never uses anyone greatly until he tests them deeply.” – A.W. Tozer
• “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.” –  Oswald Chambers
• “How sweet is rest, after fatigue! How sweet will Heaven be, when our toilsome journey is ended.” – George Whitefield
• “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” – Joni Eareckson Tada

What It Means To Be A Christian Quotes

Being a Christian is so much more than simply believing in God’s existence and that Jesus died for our sins. A true understanding of the wickedness of our sin and the beautiful sacrifice that was made on our behalf can’t help but result in a repentant heart, new desires, and a whole-hearted pursuit of our Savior.

• “Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.” – C.S. Lewis
• “The secret of joy is Christ in me. Not me in different circumstances.” – Elisabeth Elliot
• “We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.” – Eric Liddel
• “Till sin is bitter, Christ will not be sweet.” – Thomas Watson
• “A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that’s a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.” – Paul Washer
• “The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires.” – David Platt
• “The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man’s mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.”  – John Bunyan
• ”The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.” J.C. Ryle
• “A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.” – Paul Washer
• “To say ‘Lord Lord’ and then to disobey is the moral equivalent of a Judas kiss.”  – John MacArthur
• “Relying on God has to be done all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion- it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.” – Charles Spurgeon

Related: AM I REALLY A CHRISTIAN?

Powerful Christian Quotes on Prayer

I believe we often (unintentionally) downplay the importance of prayer because we’ve never truly grasped it’s magnitude and effectiveness. Each of these men clearly understood that the “prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” (James 5:16 ESV). I hope that these powerful Christian quotes on prayer are a help to you.

• “Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.”  – Charles Spurgeon
• “No time is so well spent as that which a man spends upon his knees.” – J.C. Ryle
• “You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.” – John Bunyan
• “When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn’t been ignored; it’s been considered & refused for your ultimate good.” – C.S. Lewis
• “When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.” – C. H. Spurgeon

Christian Quotes About Faith

If you’re looking for some deep Christian quotes about faith please continue reading below. By now you may have noticed that I’m a big Charles Spurgeon fan! Some of the most famous Christian quotes belong to this beloved “Prince of Preachers”. Spurgeon quotes hit me hard! What a brilliant and humble man simply seeking to honor his Savior.  

• “Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” – Charles Spurgeon
• “There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech.” – Charles Spurgeon
• “To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark. That is faith.” – Charles Spurgeon
• “The Bible characters never fell on their weak points but on their strong ones; unguarded strength is double weakness.” – Oswald Chambers
• “Satan is so much more in earnest than we are–he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”-  Amy Carmichael
• “There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.” – Elisabeth Elliot
• “My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.” – Charles Spurgeon
•  “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” Elisabeth Elliot

Not all of us are gifted with the ability to write and speak eloquent truths like these authors and pastors above. However, we are each given a voice in our tiny sphere of influence. May we use the power of our words to build each other up and share the hope of Christ.

Although many of these men and women already call Heaven home, we are incredibly blessed to be able to learn from their words of wisdom. God often uses the faithfulness of others to speak truth into our lives. I’d like to encourage you to take some time to think upon these powerful Christian quotes, dig into God’s Word, and spend some time in prayer. God will meet you there.

When your strength is failing
And you are faltering in your faith
Pause for a moment, take a deep
Breath and God your Father, who
Is the source of your strength will
Refresh and rekindle your faith.

Remember the battle is not yours,
The battle is the LORD’S battle, and He
Is fighting for you!

God will continually strengthen and sustain
You in all that you are going through!

“But they that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength “
Isaiah 40:31

What Does Living Water Mean in the Bible?

God is near to the humble, so being truthful with ourselves and with God about all that we lack is the first step to drawing near to Him so that we can access the Living Water only Jesus can provide.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.“ (John 4:10).

Living Water Meaning

By this living water, Jesus means eternal life. And through communion with Christ in the Holy Spirit, we receive the living water of everlasting life. Under this comparison, the blessing of the Messiah had been promised in the Old Testament. The graces of the Spirit and His comforts satisfy the thirsting soul that knows its own nature and necessity. What Jesus spoke figuratively, she took literally. Christ shows that the water of Jacob’s well yielded a very short satisfaction. Of whatever waters of comfort we drink, we shall thirst again. But whoever partakes of the Spirit of grace and the comforts of the gospel shall never want that which will abundantly satisfy his soul.

Bible Story of the Living Water

Throughout Scripture, the Lord has a habit of revealing His character qualities with a name and a personal encounter with that part of His personality. In the Old Testament, we see the Lord tenderly meet Hagar and she calls Him the “God who sees me…” (Genesis 16:13).

In the New Testament, Jesus carries on with this same pattern of revealing a piece of His character with a name and an experience. This time, He has an appointment with one particular woman. The exchange comes out of John 4.

The “woman by the well,” as we have come to know her, is fetching water around noon, at the hottest time of the day. Historians tell us that women gathered at the town well to collect water in the morning and sunset hours, not in the middle of the day.

Between this interesting tidbit that is noted in John, and the fact that Jesus mentions she’s had five husbands and is now living with a man who is not (a fact, at the time, that would have definitely not been a cultural norm) we may conclude that she avoids the other townspeople by gathering her water at the most miserable time of the day.

Another important part of the story is that she is surprised that Jesus, an Israelite man, is speaking to her, a Samaritan woman. Jews and Samaritans were not friends during these times. When I read the text, I can almost hear her surprise at His address, and then she goes so far as to tack on the obvious fact that she is not only a Samaritan but a woman to boot!

Culturally speaking, this lady was pretty close to the bottom of the totem pole. She’d presumably racked up a less than desirable reputation within her own community, her ethnicity was often counted against her, and if that wasn’t enough, her gender sealed the deal. But there Jesus was, going out of His way to connect with her need and reveal Himself to her — and thus to us, as well.

He could see the ache in her heart. He could see the parched places of her soul she tried unsuccessfully to quiet. He could see her trying to fill her “heart bucket” with the well water her world offered — men, love, approval, etc.

As Jesus delves into the details of her life, she dodges with some interesting talk of worship. It’s as if she senses this is all going someplace spiritual but can’t quite make the commitment to “go there” with Jesus.

Most of us can probably relate. Graciously, He understands yet gently presses on with the conversation. She then says, “I know one day the Messiah will come.” He tells her, “I am He.” She immediately drops her water jug to go gather the town to Jesus, telling them, “There’s a man who told me everything I’ve ever done!” And they all came. They all hear Jesus, and many put their trust in Him that day.

I love this story! I love that this woman was given a new reputation and purpose in the very midst of a mundane moment. I love that God met a woman who has been all of us in one way or another. And I love the tiny, often overlooked piece of the story that she left her water jug there at the well.

As if, at that very moment her soul had indeed been so filled with Living Water, she didn’t need that water pot anymore! I wonder how many times we have thrown our “water jugs” into “wells” of success, love, better-this-more-of-that, only to stumble away all the more weakened from the dryness of our souls.

Living Water Is Jesus Himself

Psalm 145:16 tells us: “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.”

Psalm 16:11 says: “You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.”

The key to accessing the Living Water and the satisfaction of the soul that the Lord has designed for us is to be near Him, in His presence. You can’t “get” the satisfaction in His hand without being close enough to hold that hand.

From this section of Scripture, some of the ways we draw near to God include:

1. Being in the truth about ourselves. The woman at the well knew she needed saving and the forgiveness of her sins. God is near to the humble, so being truthful with ourselves and God about all that we lack is the first step to drawing near to Him so we can access the Living Water.

2. Being in the truth about who God is. The woman at the well agreed with God as He revealed Himself to her. Sometimes we challenge the Lord’s Word, sometimes we even disagree and disregard it. When we reject His Word, we reject the truth that functions as a pipe for that Living Water to get into our hearts.

3. Remaining in the truth. The woman at the well didn’t pick up her water jug and go home to her old life unchanged. She acted on the truth she now held in her heart and we see her life take a significant turn. Such a turn, that the townspeople whom she did so much to avoid, she now ran to gather and, also, they all believed her and followed her — something had possibly changed, even physically in her countenance, that they could all see!

Sometimes, we let a spiritual truth sit out in front of us but don’t take it in. She took it. She drank the Living Water. Scripture sits at our fingertips, and we are challenged daily to take it up and drink it in.

What Does This Mean?

I hope and pray that the Lord will meet you at your “well” today. That you would be filled with the truth about who God is and who you are to Him in such a profound, personal way that you would leave your water jug there and go tell the others.

What is Zion?

Answer
Psalm 87:2–3 says, “The Lord loves the gates of Zion / more than all the other dwellings of Jacob. / Glorious things are said of you, / city of God.” According to this verse, Zion is synonymous with city of God, and it is a place that God loves. Zion is Jerusalem. Mount Zion is the high hill on which David built a citadel. It is on the southeast side of the city.

The word Zion occurs over 150 times in the Bible. It essentially means “fortification” and has the idea of being “raised up” as a “monument.” Zion is described both as the city of David and the city of God. As the Bible progresses, the word Zion expands in scope and takes on an additional, spiritual meaning.

The first mention of Zion in the Bible is 2 Samuel 5:7: “David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.” Zion was originally an ancient Jebusite fortress in the city of Jerusalem. After David’s conquest of the fortress, Jerusalem became a possession of Israel. The royal palace was built there, and Zion/Jerusalem became the seat of power in Israel’s kingdom..

When Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem, the meaning of Zion expanded further to include the temple area (Psalm 2:6; 48:2, 11–12; 132:13). This is the meaning found in the prophecy of Jeremiah 31:6, “Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.” In the Old Testament Zion is used as a name for the city of Jerusalem (Isaiah 40:9), the land of Judah (Jeremiah 31:12), and the nation of Israel as a whole (Zechariah 9:13).

The word Zion is also used in a theological or spiritual sense in Scripture. In the Old Testament Zion refers figuratively to Israel as the people of God (Isaiah 60:14). In the New Testament, Zion refers to God’s spiritual kingdom. We have not come to Mount Sinai, says the apostle, but “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” (Hebrews 12:22). Peter, quoting Isaiah 28:16, refers to Christ as the Cornerstone of Zion: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame” (1 Peter 2:6).

Mount Zion as a geographical area is currently the center of much dispute. The Bible is clear that, one day, Zion will be the sole possession of the Lord Jesus, and Zion—the nation and the city—will be restored. “Awake, awake, / Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; / Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, / O Jerusalem, the holy city; / For the uncircumcised and the unclean / Will no longer come into you” (Isaiah 52:1). And “the children of your oppressors will come bowing before you; / all who despise you will bow down at your feet / and will call you the City of the LORD, / Zion of the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah 60:14).