Inspirational Christian Quotes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“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.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”