Christian Lyric Quotes & Sayings

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work! — Anton Chekhov

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time. — George Matthew Adams

I achieved something I'd never achieved before in writing a lyric about myself which had no answer. It had a question about religion. I've got this thing with religions in general. I'm interested in people's philosophies and why they cling to them. Do they need something to rely upon because they are not strong enough in their own life, or are they clinging to them because there's a real value that I miss? At the time, I was becoming more obsessed about Christian religion, and Forbidden Colours was the first time I achieved that kind of writing, putting something into the lyrics that was just an expression of what I was going through, that had no ending. It was very honest, and that's what made me decide to carry on writing. I couldn't go back. I was just incapable of getting out so I just wrote directly about myself. — Christopher E. Young

Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference. — Jack David Eller

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost. — Philip Yancey

The hunter sinks his arrows into the trees and then paints the targets around them. The trees imagine they are deer. The deer imagine they are safe. The arrows: they have no imagination. — Richard Siken

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. — D.H. Lawrence

Michaels' voice caught in his throat, and Day squeezed him harder. "I promise you, Austin. Judge will be back." After — A.E. Via

I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't. — Dodie Smith

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon. — Jay McInerney

We must see creation as a garden and not exclusively as a business opportunity. — Bruce Sanguin

The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby — Priyavrat Thareja

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from. — David Batstone