Inspiring Christian Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them."

- John 7:38

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

- Philippians 4:13

"For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

- Matthew 11:30

"In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."

- John 1:4

"Do to others as you would have them do to you."

- Jesus

"Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord."

- Bible (Psalm 31:24)

"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path."

- Psalm 119:105

"Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths."

- Psalm 25:4

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

- Philippians 4:4

"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

- Colossians 3:2

"You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden."

- Matthew 5:14

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever."

- Psalm 136:1

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."

- Proverbs 3:5

"We love because he first loved us."

- 1 John 4:19

"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."

- Romans 12:12

"For nothing will be impossible for God."

- Luke 1:37

"Grace be with you all."

- Hebrews 13:25

"The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble."

- Psalm 9:9

"Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins."

- 1 Peter 4:8

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."

- John 13:34

"Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-6

"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

- 1 John 4:8

"And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you."

- 1 Thessalonians 3:12

"The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these."

- Mark 12:31

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

- 1 Corinthians 13:13

"Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."

- Romans 12:10

"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."

- 1 John 4:16

"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."

- Jeremiah 31:3

"For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations."

- Psalm 100:5

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law."

- Romans 13:8

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever."

- 1 Chronicles 16:34

"Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth."

- 1 John 3:18

"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."

- Proverbs 3:3

"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."

- Song of Solomon 8:6-7

"But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever."

- Psalm 52:8

"Everything should be done in love."

- 1 Corinthians 16:14

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

- Romans 8:38-39

"Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep."

- Psalm 36:5-6

"Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses."

- Proverbs 10:12

"But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

- Matthew 5:44

"No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us."

- 1 John 4:12

"But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me."

- Micah 7:7

"Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken."

- Psalm 62:5-6

"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength."

- Mark 12:30

"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love."

- 2 Peter 1:5-7

"Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

- 1 Peter 5:6-7

"Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

- Psalm 23:6

"Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’"

- John 20:29

"I remain confident of this, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."

- Psalm 27:13-14

"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Isaiah 40:31

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."

- Hebrews 11:1

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

- Ephesians 2:8-9

"Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”"

- John 11:40

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."

- Romans 5:1

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

- Philippians 4:6-7

"Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

- Matthew 17:20

"Everything is possible for one who believes."

- Mark 9:23

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

- John 16:33

"The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?"

- Psalm 27:1

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

- 2 Timothy 4:7

"Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me."

- Psalm 23:4

"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."

- John 15:13

"Therefore encourage one another to build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God."

- 1 John 4:7

"Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty."

- Job 6:14

"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."

- Proverbs 17:17

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."

- Proverbs 27:17

"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

- Ephesians 4:32

"Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor."

- Romans 12:10

"One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend."

- Proverbs 17:9

"Two people are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. If they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help."

- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

"Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other."

- 1 John 4:11

"For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them."

- Matthew 18:20

"One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

- Proverbs 18:24

"Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm."

- Proverbs 13:20

"Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel."

- Proverbs 27:9

"Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!"

- Psalm 133:1

"Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ."

- Galatians 6:2

"Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die — there will I be buried."

- Ruth 1:16-17

"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone."

- Romans 12:18

"And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother."

- 1 John 4:21

"Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor."

- Proverbs 21:21

"Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation."

- Isaiah 12:2

"But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble."

- Psalm 59:16

"God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day."

- Psalm 46:5

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."

- 2 Timothy 1:7

"That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

- 2 Corinthians 12:10

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him."

- Psalm 28:7

"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come."

- Proverbs 31:25

"The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace."

- Psalm 29:11

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

- Psalm 73:26

"I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth."

- Psalm 121:1-2

"And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast."

- 1 Peter 5:10

"Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."

- Nehemiah 8:10

"The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him—my father’s God, and I will exalt him."

- Exodus 15:2

"Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always."

- 1 Chronicles 16:11

"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."

- Psalm 46:1-3

"The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold."

- Psalm 18:2

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

- Joshua 1:9

"The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation."

- Psalm 118:14

"Courage is being scared to death…and saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

- C. S. Lewis

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

- Billy Graham

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!"

- Joyce Meyer

"Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you."

- Bethany Hamilton

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"It is always darkest just before the day dawneth."

- Thomas Fuller

"And you will feel secure because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security."

- Job 11:18

"Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death."

- John Newton

"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring."

- Helen Keller

"Without Christ, there is no hope."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

- Romans 15:13

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

- John 3:16

"Love your neighbor as yourself."

- Matthew 22:39

"By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God."

- Ephesians 2:8

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

- Romans 12:21

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"Where God guides, He provides."

- Isaiah 58:11

"The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing."

- Zephaniah 3:17

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth."

- Isaiah 40:28-31

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."

- Jesus

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"What, then, shall we say in response? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

- Romans 8:31

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength."

- Philippians 4:13

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

- Matthew 11:28

"There are far better things ahead than anything we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."

- Phillips Brooks

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

- Corrie ten Boom

"True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises."

- Francis Chan

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

- C.S. Lewis

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."

- John Piper

"It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you."

- Timothy Keller

"Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

- Saint Augustine

"Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy."

- D.L. Moody

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

- Saint Augustine

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain."

- John Piper

"God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile."

- Max Lucado

"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

"Let God’s promises shine on your problems."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us."

- Billy Graham

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

- Oswald Chambers

"Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you."

- J.I. Packer

"If you have been reduced to God being your only hope, you are in a good place."

- John Piper

"God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."

- Tony Evans

"Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright."

- Oswald Chambers

"We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not have."

- Priscilla Shirer

"There is not a single thing that Jesus cannot change, control, and conquer because he is the living Lord."

- Franklin Graham

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man."

- Leonard Ravenhill

"You need not to know much about Heaven – it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us."

- C.S. Lewis

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God."

- A.W. Pink

"You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read."

- John MacArthur

"We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn.’"

- C.T. Studd

"The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting."

- Oswald Chambers

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"The principle part of faith is patience."

- George MacDonald

"God never made a promise that was too good to be true."

- Dwight L. Moody

"If God is for us, who can be against us?"

- Romans 8:31

"The safest place in all the world is in the will of God, and the safest protection in all the world is the name of God."

- Jim Laffoon

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

- Helen Keller

"When we work, we work. When we pray, God works."

- James Hudson Taylor

"He said “Love…as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much."

- Amy Carmichael

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

"He became what we are that He might make us what He is."

- St. Athanasius

"Look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else."

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord."

- Walter Cradock

"I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve."

- Tim Tebow

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

- Commonly attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr

"I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

- George MacDonald

"God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies."

- Hudson Taylor

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Chuck Swindoll

"If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!"

- D.L. Moody

"Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven."

- Randy Alcorn

"Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother."

- St. Augustine

"The tragedy of life…is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that knowing Him they still insist on going their own way."

- William Barclay

"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."

- John Calvin

"Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life."

- Charles Stanley

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."

- Gregory Peck

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

- Henry David Thoreau

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience."

- Alfred Edersheim

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

"You can only learn what obedience is by obeying."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows."

- Thomas Watson

"For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step."

- Thomas a’ Kempis

"What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

"Joy is the infallible proof of the presence of God."

- Madeleine L’engle

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some person ever reads."

- William J. Toms

"Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

- Garth Brooks

"Christ literally walked in our shoes."

- Tim Keller

"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t."

- Blaise Pascal

"May today there be peace within."

- Saint Therese

"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way."

- Dean Stanley

"Christians ought not to slander God by looking as if they were at an everlasting funeral."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The right manner of growth is to grow less in one’s own eyes."

- Thomas Watson

"Life is God’s novel. Let him write it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them."

- Anonymous

"Do everything in love."

"Give thanks in all circumstances."

"Rejoice always."

"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong."

"He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless."

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."

"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."

"I trust the next chapter because I know the author."

"God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

"May you open your hands, dropping all that troubles you at his feet."