quotes

 

• Geef niet op als God zwijgt. ―Christa Rosier.
• God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... do not be afraid. ―George MacDonald
• What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ―A.W. Tozer
• One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. ―G.K. Chesterton
• I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me. ―Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy. ―Brennan Manning
• Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was? ―Leonard Ravenhill
• God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. ―C.S. Lewis

• God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all. And in the love of God there are no degrees; there is only Love. ―Rich Mullins
• In love service, only wounded soldiers can serve. ―Brennan Manning
• If you love deeply you're going to get hurt badly. ―C.S. Lewis
• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore then going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger. ―Keith Green
• I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains. —John Muir
• The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives. ―D.L. Moody
• Men begint veeleer duidelijker in te zien, dat het leven maar een soort van bemestingstijd is, en de oogst niet hier. ―Vincent van Gogh
• "Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world, where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house, where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you.
  Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved, and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken."
  ―Rich Mullins

• Jezus kwam ook voor de dwazen uit het westen. ―onbekend
• The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that benefits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask. ―Rich Mullins
• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shòuts! to us in our pain; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ―C.S. Lewis
• Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. ―C.S. Lewis
• The way of God is a daily cross. No one has ascended into heaven through an easy life. ―Saint Isaac of Syria

• There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. ―Blaise Pascal, Pensées
• Power, success, happiness, as the world knows them, are his who will fight for them hard enough; but peace, love , joy are only from God. ―Frederick Buechner
• Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. ―Vincent van Gogh
• To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. ―A.W. Tozer
• The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality and popularity. ―Leonard Ravenhill

• God made man in His own image, and man returned the compliment. ―Blaise Pascal
• God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic. ―Corrie ten Boom
• ..Our hearts are restless until they rest in You. ―Augustinus
• Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think that they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons. ―Henri Nouwen
• 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
• If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul. ―John Piper

• Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment, or even common sense. ―C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. ―John Piper
• Jij bent misschien de enige Bijbel die anderen lezen. ―onbekend
• Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours. ―Rich Mullins
• We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for. ―Henri Nouwen

• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for anoter world. ―C.S. Lewis
• If there were no God, there would be no atheists. ―G.K. Chesterton
• The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us. ―Frederick Buechner
• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. ―C.S. Lewis
• I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future! ―Billy Graham
• God heeft geen kleinkinderen, alleen Kinderen.. ―Corrie ten Boom
• Hij die alles schiep, koos er voor om Zijn littekens te behouden. ―onbekend
• We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved. ―Rich Mullins

• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. ―G.K. Chesterton
• Ik geloof niet dat de Heer Jezus de kerk, jullie veelsoortige, verschillende kerken trouwens, heeft gesticht om daar verveeld te worden met getheologiseer, drenzend zingen van zonderlinge teksten, betaling van geld in zakken aan stokken en zitten op rijen naar rang en stand. Ook zal het velen ergeren dat jullie een theatrale stem opzetten als je preekt, een echte domineesstem. Het kerkbezoek neemt dan ook af. Ik geloof niet dat jullie het goed doen. In de loop van eeuwen hebben jullie een hele entourage, een heel ritueel, een hele liturgie, een heel decor ontwikkeld waarin en waarmee het geloofsleven zich moet afspelen, op zondag. Dat begint veel goedwillende en gelovige mensen te vervelen. Ze komen niet meer. Vergeef me dat ik het durf zeggen: het lijkt mij best mogelijk dat de afvalligheid niet de schuld van de mensen is, maar van jullie met jullie kerken. Er zijn ontzettend veel mensen die diep in God geloven en diep in Christus geloven maar er niet over denken om naar de kerk te gaan. Zoeken jullie de oorzaken maar eens bij jezelf. ―Floris Bakels, Nacht und Nebel
• God loves us as we are, not as we shòuld be, for we will never be, as we should be.. ―Brennan Manning
• If God was cultured, as most Christian people wish He was, He would be useless to Christianity.. But God is a Wìld Man. Thànk God! ―Rich Mullins
• Daar in de eeuwigheid, zul je zijn wat God in dìt leven van je heeft kunnen maken.  ―Henk Binnendijk
• Als God ons over onverharde wegen stuurt, voorziet Hij ons van stevige schoenen. ―Corrie ten Boom
• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. ―Saint Augustine

• Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him. ―C.S. Lewis
• The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily. ―Rich Mullins
• I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I place in God's Hand's, I still possess. ―Maarten Luther
• 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. ―C.S. Lewis
• 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
• "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing .. and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ―Henri Nouwen
• Zij die in tranen zaaien, zullen oogsten met gejuich. ―Koning David, Psalm 126:5
• .. I will come back and take you with Me. Then we will be together .. ―Christ Jesus

        

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