Ray Stedman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity, but never keep any record of how many they drive away from Christ!
-- Ray Stedman

#Christian #Religion #Church
Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in Godâ€™s personal plan for our lives.
-- Ray Stedman

#Attitude #Needs #Praying
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.
-- Ray Stedman

#Christian #People #Ordinary
True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
-- Ray Stedman

#Prayer #Needs #Adequacy
It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.
-- Ray Stedman

#Jobs #Book #Loss
True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.
-- Ray Stedman

#Spirit #Christianity #Behavior
The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure - a transcendent power! That is humanity as God intended it to be. The vessel is not much in itself, but it holds an inestimable treasure, beyond price, and a transcendent power, greater than any other power known to men.
-- Ray Stedman

#Christian #Men #Humanity
To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.
-- Ray Stedman

#Lonely #Selfish #People
The Psalms are much more than poetry. Many of them bear the title, Maskil, or teaching psalm. They are thus intended to instruct the mind as well as to encourage the heart. They are designed not only to reflect a mood, but to show us also how to handle that mood; how to escape from depression or how to balance exaltation with wisdom.
-- Ray Stedman

#Teaching #Heart #Mind

The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.
Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
My family background was deeply Christian.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

Ray Stedman famous quotes

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