Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered around the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is based on the belief that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity. The term “Christianity” comes from the Greek word “Christos,” meaning “anointed one” or “Messiah,” and it refers to followers of Christ.
Christianity emerged in the 1st century AD in the region of Palestine, part of the Roman Empire at that time. Jesus, who Christians believe is the Son of God and the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), preached a message of love, forgiveness, and salvation. He performed miracles, taught his disciples, and ultimately sacrificed himself on the cross to redeem humanity from sin.
The core beliefs of Christianity include the belief in one God who exists as a Trinity—God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit. Christians believe that Jesus’ death and resurrection provided salvation and eternal life for all who believe in him. They follow the teachings of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible, which includes the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) and other writings by early Christian leaders.
Christianity has various denominations and traditions, such as Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. Each denomination may have its specific practices, rituals, interpretations of the Bible, and organizational structures. However, they all share a common foundation in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians gather for worship, participate in sacraments or ordinances (such as baptism and communion), and seek to live according to the principles of love, compassion, and moral values taught by Jesus.
Overall, Christianity encompasses a broad range of beliefs and practices, but it is ultimately centered on faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the path to salvation.
Christianity Quotes
1. “You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.”
― John MacArthur
2. “Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
― Jim Elliot
3. “There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God.”
― Alistair Begg
4. “Relying on God has to start all over every day as if nothing has yet been done.”
― C.S. Lewis
5. “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― Corrie Ten Boom
6. “Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.”
― Lysa Terkeurst
7. “The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not protect you. To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
― Bernadette Devlin
8. “We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”
― Max Lucado
9. “God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible — what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.”
― AW Tozer
10. “When you realize that God loves you and that He has a plan for your life, you can walk with your head held high — totally confident in who He created you to be.”
― Joyce Meyer
11. “God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
12. “If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.”
― Elisabeth Elliot
13. “My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”
― Brennan Manning
14. “If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who help themselves. Power is in the act of humility.”
― Patricia Amis
15. “Don’t be dependent on man, because they change like the wind. Depend on the Lord, and know that He is faithful to keep His Word.”
― Matthew Hagee
16. “Faith doesn’t always mean that God changes your situation. Sometimes it means He changes you.”
― Steven Furtick
17. “Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer
18. “Let your praise to God be perpetual.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
19. “I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.”
― Saint Ignatius
20. “Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life.”
― Charles Stanley
21. “It would be a shame for God to want to do more and for you to settle for less.”
― Steven Furtick
22. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa
23. “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”
― Billy Graham
24. “The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God in your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.”
― Matt Chandler
25. “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”
― John Piper
26. “God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.”
― Margaret Feinberg
27. “But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.”
― Francis Chan
28. “God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.”
― Christine Caine
29. “What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar
30. “Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.”
― Steven Furtick
31. “God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.”
― Tony Evans
32. “And now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
― The Bible
33. “As long as you are living, you will face problems. But you serve a God who solves problems.”
― John Hagee
34. “If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.”
― Wanda E. Brunstetter
35. “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher
37. “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
― Max Lucado
38. “Sometimes you must stand still in order to get moving to where GOD wants you to go.”
― D. A. MC Bride
39. “If you obey God with your whole heart, you’ll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them.”
― Meg Moseley
40. “God hears your every thought, whether you dress it up with ‘Thee’ and ‘Thou’ or not.”
― Catherine Richmond
41. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie Ten Boom
42. “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
― Oswald Chambers
43. “You may have big problems, but we serve a big God. Quit worrying. God is saying all is well.”
― Joel Osteen
44. “We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!”
― April Cofield Essix
45. “Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.”
― Stanley Hauerwas
46. “Stop worrying about what you aren’t and start being happy about who you are.”
― John Hagee
47. “God is more than able to guide you on the right path. Keep trusting Him.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
48. “What the world neglects, the Lord accepts.”
― Deborah Brodie
49. “The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.”
― Victor Manuel Rivera
50. “GOD blesses you so that He can do for others through you; it is not always about you.”
― D. A. MC Bride
51. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
― Augustine
52. “If through a broken heart, God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”
― Oswald Chambers
53. “God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.”
― Max Lucado
54. “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo
55. “God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”
― Dwight L. Moody
56. “Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one.”
― A.W. Tozer
57. “Religion says, ‘I obey; therefore I am accepted.’ Christianity says, ‘I’m accepted, therefore I obey.’”
― Timothy Keller
58. “Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.”
― Corrie Ten Boom
59. “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
― C.S. Lewis
60. “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
― Elisabeth Elliot
61. “We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.”
― Francis Chan
62. “God’s Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss
63. “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada
64. “There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”
― Ravi Zacharias
65. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
― Mother Teresa
66. “Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one.”
― A.W. Tozer
67. “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
68. “Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.”
― Wanda E. Brunstetter
69. “The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.”
― R.C. Sproul
70. “The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”
― John MacArthur
71. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis
72. “God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
― Soren Kierkegaard
73. “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard
74. “Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.”
― Francine Rivers
75. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie Ten Boom
76. “Anything under God’s control is never out of control.”
― Charles Swindoll
77. “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!”
― TD Jakes
78. “The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.”
― Michael Phillips
79. “You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.”
― Tyler Perry
80. “When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.”
― Charles Spurgeon
81. “The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.”
― C.S. Lewis
82. “When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.”
― James Hudson Taylor
83. “Your life as a Christian should make nonbelievers question their disbelief in God.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
84. “The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.”
― Dean Stanley
85. “We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.”
― John R.W. Stott
86. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis
87. “Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.”
― Joyce Meyer
88. “Being A Christian doesn’t mean I won’t fall… It means Jesus will catch me when I do.”
― John Hagee
89. “If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.”
― Johnny Cash
90. “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
91. “Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”
― Daniel Webster
92. “Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.”
― David Platt
93. “One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God’s comfort.”
― Beth Moore
94. “Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.”
― Adrian Rogers
95. “Christian joy is letting Christ live His life out through you so that what He is, you become.”
― David Jeremiah
96. “The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.”
― George Santayana
97. “The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.”
― J. C. Ryle
98. “The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.”
― Thomas Brooks
99. “Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.”
― Thomas Jefferson
100. “The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.”
― Oswald Chambers
101. “Christian life consists of faith and charity.”
― Martin Luther
102. “Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ’s strength.”
― Perry Noble
103. “To secure one’s freedom the Christian must experience God’s light which is God’s truth.”
― Watchman Nee
104. “The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality, there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
105. “The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.”
― John Flavel
106. “Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God’s law, on the Ten Commandments. No apologies.”
― Randall Terry
107. “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
108. “Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.”
― C. S. Lewis
109. “Christ did not die for any upon condition if they do believe; but He died for all God’s elect, that they should believe.”
― John Owen
110. “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
