100 Inspirational Christian Quotes to Strengthen Faith and Fill Your Heart with Hope

“To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust Him in the dark — that is faith.”

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

“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 now doing for me.”

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”

“God is not looking for men of great faith. He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.”

“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His promises.”

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”

“I do not always feel His presence, but God’s promises do not depend upon my feelings. They rest upon His integrity.”

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

“The Bible characters never fell on their weak points but on their strong ones. Unguarded strength is double weakness.”

“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.”

“Relying on God has to be done all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”

“There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.”

“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”

“Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

“Let God’s promises shine on your problems.”

“God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.”

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

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

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

“Every witness will rejoice at the work God did. This is God’s goal for you — more victory than defeat, more joy than sadness, more hope than despair.”

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

“While it looks like things are out of control, behind the scenes there is a God who hasn’t surrendered His authority.”

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

“Remember this — had any other condition been better for you than the one you are in, divine love would have put you there.”

“If you find yourself with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that you were made for another world.”

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

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

“God’s grace is not just undeserved favor. It is the power to become what He has called you to be.”

“When you feel furthest from God, remember — He has not moved.”

“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.”

“God uses valleys to mold our character.”

“When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.”

“Sometimes God allows what He hates to accomplish what He loves.”

“God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.”

“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

“Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.”

“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.”

“When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.”

“The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance and cling to Christ alone.”

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow — it empties today of its strength.”

“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.”

“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature I could think of.”

“The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.”

“No time is so well spent as that which a man spends upon his knees.”

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

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.”

“Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.”

“When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn’t been ignored. It has been considered and refused for your ultimate good.”

“Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you. It is an exercise to conform your desires and purposes to His will and glory.”

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

“When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them.”

“Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace.”

“Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.”

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

“Desire that your life counts for something great. Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this — don’t coast through life without a passion.”

“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase — just take the first step.”

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

“Joy is the infallible proof of the presence of God.”

“Till sin is bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

“Life is God’s novel. Let Him write it.”

“Christ literally walked in our shoes.”

“Don’t shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him.”

“The secret of joy is Christ in me — not me in different circumstances.”

“What the world neglects, the Lord accepts.”

“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”

“Leave it all in the hands that were wounded for you.”

“God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”

“Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin. They want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.”

“Consider how precious a soul must be when both God and the devil are after it.”

“The principle part of faith is patience.”

“I wish not merely to be called Christian but also to be Christian.”

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

“On what basis can a righteous God justify the ungodly? It is entirely and all of grace.”

“Ah, what a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.”

“Two works of mercy set a man free — forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.”

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

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

“What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.”

“The heart that has truly tasted the grace of Christ will instinctively hate sin.”

“The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires.”

“A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed. They have new affections.”

“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.”

“If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you are available.”

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side. My greatest concern is to be on God’s side — for God is always right.”

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

“It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates.”

“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.”

“We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.”

“Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It is His provision for me to help others live.”

“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would say — I wish I had your God.”

“I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. But that’s the great thing about living the Christian life — you’re trying to get better every day.”

“God has given us a community of people to learn from. We have the ability to strengthen others and help lift them through challenging times.”

“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are. He buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech.”

“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter.”

“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.”

“Don’t shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him.”

“The most dangerous thing we can tell a young person is that God has a wonderful plan for their life without telling them what that plan will cost.”

“Wherever you are — be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”

“God entrusts me with His resources not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build His kingdom in heaven.”